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

IRELAND

One student surveying the Running Man, part of the Real Bodies exhibition that opened today at the Ambassador Theatre in Dublin Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Gardaí are anxious to contact witnesses who may have information about an incident where a jogger was killed in a hit-and-run incident.
• Drimnagh Credit Union was fined €125k for ‘unacceptable risk’ of money laundering.
• Independent Alliance TD John Halligan said that gardaí should interview the surviving Bon Secours nuns over Tuam burial site.
• Tributes were paid to an elderly man who was killed in a Donegal house fire.
• Fáilte Ireland is shutting down its tourist information office in Dublin Airport, and one Fianna Fáil TD said it was a “senseless” thing to do.
• Accused of murdering Anne Shortall, a court today heard how Roy Webster ’broke down and told gardaí he beat her to death with a hammer‘.
• Comreg is going to investigate Three mobile over roaming charges.
• Ireland’s entry for this year’s Eurovision was unveiled.
• Jack Nealon’s pub in Dublin is set to close after over 100 years.
• A hip hop trio won the best album in Ireland last year.
• The Anti-Austerity Alliance is no more. Now it’s rebranded as Solidarity.

INTERNATIONAL

German police at the scene of the attack in Dusseldorf train station, which took place last night. David Young / DPA/PA Image David Young / DPA/PA Image / DPA/PA Image

#TWEETING: A food blogger was awarded £24,000 in a defamation case against controversial columnist Katie Hopkins.

#FUGITIVE: A German teenager who bragged about the murder of a child was arrested as police find a second body related to the case.

#TRAVEL BAN: Donald Trump’s latest bid to restrict travel for people from certain countries to the US has faced a series of court challenges.

PARTING SHOT

When Professor Robert E Kelly agreed to appear on BBC News to talk about the current political situation in South Korea, he probably didn’t expect the whole world to be talking about it a couple of hours later.

Kelly’s children burst into the room that he was conducting this very serious chat in, and an internet sensation was born.

BBC Newsbeat / Twitter BBC Newsbeat / Twitter / Twitter

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