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

IRELAND

The LE Niamh was involved in an operation in which rescuers found 14 dead migrants on a boat off the coast of Libya yesterday. More than 500 people were on board the wooden barge, which is believed to have left Tripoli in the early hours of yesterday morning. RollingNews.ie / Department of Defence RollingNews.ie / Department of Defence / Department of Defence

• Prisoners were injured in a riot at Cloverhill Prison
• A junior minister said Irish Water registrations were rising, but hasn’t seen the numbers
• The north west was revealed as having a number of tax offenders
• Dozens of Prison Service drivers “forgot” to bring their licences to work
• A councillor left Renua – two months after joining
• The Banking Inquiry heard from Mary Harney and John Gormley
• Three men were arrested after a car being chased by gardaí crashed
• Supervalu and Centra recalled soup

INTERNATIONAL

Cecil the lion. Paula French via AP Paula French via AP

#CECIL THE LION: The fallout from the shooting of a Zimbabwean lion by an American dentist continued, with the dentist saying he didn’t know the lion was a local favourite.

#TALIBAN: The head of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, is dead. And has been for at least two years.

#MH370: A piece of plane wreckage found in the Indian Ocean may be from doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

INNOVATION

• Wishing someone a happy birthday on Facebook just became even easier.
• Windows 10 is here. This is what we thought.

PARTING SHOT

A host of young people are making millions from Vines. How? Why? Tech Insider’s look at the life of Logan Paul is fascinating, bewildering and beguiling.