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

IRELAND

Celebrating a try during the Six Nations game in the Aviva Stadium today. Charles McQuillan / Getty Images Charles McQuillan / Getty Images / Getty Images

• A court in Belfast heard that Paddy Jackson would be the “last person in the world to rape someone”.
• Four men were arrested as gardaí said they’ve foiled a potential gangland hit in Dublin’s inner city.
• The High Court ruled that a teenager’s HIV diagnosis need not be disclosed to a young woman.
• Ireland won the Six Nations, enjoying a bonus-point win over the Scots, and setting up a Grand Slam showdown with England next week.
• A young girl has died in a suspected meningitis outbreak.
• Thousands marched in Dublin calling for the Eighth Amendment to be retained.
• A man died after the car he was in collided with a truck in Cavan.
• Asylum seekers in Ireland can finally work, but it doesn’t look like they’re allowed drive to that work.
• Gardaí have tracked down Lidl thieves after looters posted videos of themselves online.
• A senior Kinahan criminal faces extradition over the murder of Eddie Hutch.
• The Square in Tallaght sold a winning Euromillions Plus ticket as lightening strikes twice in Clonmel.
• A man who robbed three shops in Dublin with a blood-filled syringe has been jailed for four and a half years.

INTERNATIONAL

Military personnel in Salisbury as they prepare to remove an ambulance Chris J Ratcliffe / Getty Images Chris J Ratcliffe / Getty Images / Getty Images

#YOUNTVILLE: A gunman and three women are dead after a hostage standoff at a veterans’ home in California.

#MEETING: Donald Trump tweeted that his proposed meeting with Kim Jong-Un will be “good for the world”.

#THE ONE CAMPAIGN: An advocacy group – that Bono co-founded – admitted that staff were bullied and harassed for a number of years.

PARTING SHOT

Ireland clinched the Six Nations rugby championship for the third time in five years today (which is a very sweet sentence to write).

Here are all the tries flying in today as Ireland beat the Scots in the Aviva Stadium (if you can’t see the video, click here).

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