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Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

1916, a newspaper apology and Michaella McCollum had people talking today.

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

IRELAND

PastedImage-58328 The Taoiseach laid a wreath and local school children unveiled the Necrology Wall at Glasnevin Cemetery, where the names of all those who died as a result of the 1916 conflict, in chronological and alphabetical order, are inscribed. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

INTERNATIONAL

Peter Pan sculpture for sale Lyon and Turnbull Decorative Arts Specialist Hannah Willetts with a model of Sir George Frampton's bronze sculpture of JM Barrie's Peter Pan that is due to be sold at the auction house in Edinburgh on Wednesday with an estimate of £20,000. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#DOPING: Premier League footballers, boxers and cricketers were among 150 sports stars prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs, a London doctor claimed in an expose by The Sunday Times.

#PHILADELPHIA: Two people were killed when a passenger train hit a digger near Philadelphia.

#SYRIA: Islamic State lost more territory to Syrian troops.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

It’s Wrestlemania tonight. But how did a show about fake fighting get to the point of selling 100,000 tickets and becoming an international sensation? Vox explains.

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