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

IRELAND

A performance of the Duo Lugo Laser act, part of Tom Duffy's circus, in Carlow town Niall Carson / PA Images Niall Carson / PA Images / PA Images

• A status orange snow-ice warning has been issued for seven counties as the Beast from the East gets set to make landfall.
• Here are the plans in place to deal with the Beast’s alter ego, Storm Emma.
• Leo Varadkar defended his government’s marketing of the Ireland 2040 plan.
• A former Sinn Féin councillor was awarded €3,500 in his defamation case against RTÉ.
• Ryle Nugent is to leave RTE after 24 years.
• Aer Lingus passengers will have to pay up to €60 for the return of lost items.
• Jamie Heaslip announced his retirement from rugby with immediate effect.
• It emerged that a Galway couple were overcharged €1.23 million on their tracker mortgage.
• Aging rockers the Rolling Stones will play Croke Park this summer.
• The victim of a shooting in Coolock remains in critical condition.
• There’s already disagreement about where to put Cork’s Luas system.

WORLD

Emergency personnel at the scene of an explosion at Hinckley Road in Leicester this morning Joe Giddens / PA Images Joe Giddens / PA Images / PA Images

#BANKRUPT: The Weinstein Company is to file for bankruptcy.

#JEZZA: Jeremy Corbyn has called for a new customs union with the EU in the aftermath of Brexit.

#LEICESTER: Five people have been confirmed dead after last night’s shop explosion in the British city.

#KEVIN SMITH: The film director announced that he has suffered a ‘massive’ heart attack.

PARTING SHOT

The noble mullet – king of the hairstyles. Long at the back, short on the top and sides. A haircut you can set your watch to.

For all those who appreciate the 80s finest artistic statement as much as we do, there’s the annual Mulletfest in the Australian outback. How can anything won by a man nicknamed ‘Shagger’ be anything less than epic. The Guardian has a loving rundown on the goings on in Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, last week.

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