Updated at 11.15pm

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

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern — amongst the mourners today at the funeral of Edward Haughey [Brian Lawless/PA Wire]

• Gerry Adams again insisted he played no part in Jean McConville’s murder
• It emerged the man who raped two children in Athlone is appealing his sentence
• The Taoiseach refused to answer questions on the Callinan controversy
• Sentencing was delayed in the case of a mother who killed her son
• A student who suffered a head injury playing rugby was awarded €2.75m [RTE]
• €50,000 of khat was seized in Cork
• Edward Haughey was laid to rest
• A woman died in a crash on the N6
• A massive radio conference took place
• There was “disgust” over a dog abuser’s court sentence
• The IMO claimed whistleblowers were being gagged
• Dublin councillors voted ‘yay‘ for a mayor plebiscite
• And Cork councillors voted to honour Michael D Higgins
• And there was an appeal for 1,000 shaggy sheep…

Ukrainian sailors leave the Konstantin Olshansky navy ship in the bay of Donuzlav, Crimea [Pavel Golovkin/AP/PA Images]

WORLD

#PLANE: Malaysia’s Prime Minister said he could confirm Flight MH370 went down in the Indian Ocean, west of Perth.

#CRIMEA: Ukraine ordered its outnumbered troops out of the Crimea region (above).

#WASHINGTON: 108 people are still missing after a mudslide near Seattle.

INNOVATION

• Turks are still finding ways to Tweet, despite a controversial ban [BBC]
• And eight-year-old Kelly McCabe won the Doodle 4 Google contest

PARTING SHOT

Over half a million euro sounds a little pricey for a camera, right?

Especially a camera from 1971…

The Hasselblad 500 sold at auction over the weekend had a unique selling point however. It had been to the moon and back. [Yahoo News]

[Image: Galerie Westlicht]

First posted at 9.05pm