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

Frustrated teacher Mairead Roe is pictured with her two son talking to Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, who was out canvassing in Dublin West with Fine Gael's By Election candidate, Senator Eamonn Coghlan, in Blanchardstown. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• A man has been found guilty of causing the death of a boy by setting a makeshift den on fire. [RTÉ]
• Gangster ‘Fat Freddie’ was arrested at Dublin airport and appeared in court.
• Green Isle Foods is to create 115 new jobs at its pizza and pastry plants in Longford and Galway.
• Fianna Fáil maintains that water charges will cost families more than €400 a year.
• The Rosie Hackett Bridge was officially opened in Dublin.
• Minister Jan O’Sullivan says hotels and empty State buildings could help solve the homelessness crisis.
• Here’s how charities reacted to the Government’s homelessness plan.
• Protesters occupied Blanchardstown’s council offices to highlight homelessness.
• Gerry Adams said he is “very relaxed” about most Sinn Féin supporters thinking he was in the IRA.
• A man admitted his role in a Kilkenny kidnap and robbery case where a family were held hostage. [RTÉ]
• Does Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore want to be Taoiseach? We asked him.
• Former Anglo boss David Drumm faces fraud allegations in court in America.

INTERNATIONAL

Bosnia: The flooding has unearthed landmines left over from Bosnia's 1992-95 war and washed away the signs that marked them. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#BALKANS Thousands of people have fled the Balkans over flooding, in the worst exodus since war.

#BRAZIL Officials in Brazil are afraid that the World Cup could mean a surge in child prostitution.

#THAILAND After months of deadly anti-government protests, martial law was declared in Thailand.

#AMERICA A woman called in a bomb threat to a graduation – so her parents wouldn’t find out she had left college.

#RATE FIXING The EU regulator has leveled a ‘cartel’ charge against three top banks. Here’s why.

#NIGERIA Twin car bomb attacks killed 46 people, an act called “cruel and evil” by President Goodluck Jonathan.

INNOVATION

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• Meet the Surface Pro 3 – it weighs 800g and will apparently replace your laptop… [TheJournal.ie]
• Would you ask someone through Facebook – through their profile – if they’re single? [TheGuardian.com]

PARTING SHOT

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The Japanese city of Hiroshima was bombed by the US in 1945. Now a previously unseen photograph taken by one of the bombers a minute after the horrific blast is to be sold at an auction. [Daily Mail]