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

IRELAND

Adare Manor has gone green for the weekend that's in it Paul Lehane Paul Lehane

• Leo Varadkar has ‘clarified’ that he was joking about the Trump/Doonbeg wind far farrago. Meanwhile, Mike Pence has told the Taoiseach that he and his partner Matt are welcome in the US vice president’s home for a visit.
• Met Éireann has issued an orange snow-ice warning for Sunday along the east coast.
• The longer Luas trams recently introduced have been taken out of service due to a system fault.
• The investigation into an alleged rape in Belfast involving Irish rugby international Paddy Jackson has heard that the police investigation was ‘a shambles’.
• Bus Éireann has lost the right to operate six routes in Co Kildare to an English company.
• Investigators probing the loss of Rescue 116 have called for a review of all Irish search and rescue operations.
• Gardaí have completed their search of a wooded area in Cork as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Tina Satchwell.
• A 19 -year-old man died in a car crash in Co Galway.

WORLD

Gold bullion strewn across a Russian runway after an aircraft shed its load Twitter / Yakutia Twitter / Yakutia / Yakutia

#RUSSIA: Over €300 million worth of gold spilled onto a runway after a cargo plane shed its load.

#SNAPCHAT: Shares in the social media app have plummeted after it ran a ‘slap Rihanna’ ad.

#LONDON: The Met police are treating the death of a Russian businessman as murder.

PARTING SHOT

Well we never. You can use any card to activate the power in a hotel room? You learn something new every day.

Via DailyEdge.ie

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