NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Model Thalia Heffernan with horse Edward prepare for ladies day at the RDS Dublin Horse Show in a fortnight. Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

• Enda Kenny, Joan Burton and Pat Rabbitte all faced questions at the banking inquiry.  
• Meanwhile, former Anglo CEO David Drumm wants to appear via video link from the US.
•  A report showed that gardaí may have interviewed a victim of a paedophile priest  as a ‘family favour’ for a retired garda.
• Two men in Tralee are facing burglary charges after breaking into the Aqua Dome for a late night swim.
• The HSE is trying to entice Irish nurses back home with the promise of money and contracts.
• Four cruise-liners crammed into Dublin Port, bringing some 10,000 tourists to the capital.
• A 25-year-old woman will be sentenced tomorrow for smuggling a mobile phone internally into Mountjoy Prison.
• Irish Water dealt with over 500 calls a day last year according to new figures.
• A priest who was subjected to a violent break-in at a parish house celebrated Mass before seeking medical attention for knife wounds.

WORLD

Visitors cool off at the Czech Republic pavilion at the 2015 Expo near Milan. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#NEW WORLD: Nasa has found the most Earth-like planet yet. Smack bang in the ‘Goldilocks Zone’, Kepler-452b is 1,400 light-years from Earth.

#BIG MONEY: Nikkei, Japan’s largest media company, is to buy the Financial Times group for €1.2 billion.

#US: Five adults and children from the same family were stabbed to death at a home in Oklahoma.

INNOVATION

• Google Maps knows where you’ve been and it’s making it easier for you to check.
• Ever buy a book from Amazon and when it comes it’s a different size than you expected? The retailer wants to change all that. (HuffPo)

PARTING SHOT

‘What’s cooler than a drone?’

‘Two drones?’

‘Yep. What’s cooler than two drones?’

‘Eh….?’

‘How about one drone stranded on a rooftop and being retrieved by another drone with homemade drone-grabbing arms?‘

‘Ooooohhhh’