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

IRELAND

The media group outside the home of John and Jennifer Guinness during her kidnap ordeal in April 1986 Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• A winning lottery ticket, worth €13.7 million following last night’s draw, was sold in Belmullet, Co Mayo.
• The viewing public expressed outrage at an interview Ray D’Arcy conducted with Making a Murderer lawyer Dean Strang.
• A bomb threat forced a Turkish Airlines plane to land at Shannon. No explosives were found aboard the plane.
• A man died following a single-car collision on the Sligo-to-Enniskillen road.
• A Cork city councillor has denounced drug dealers as “not giving a damn about human life” following the death of a teenager who ingested the drug 25I-NBOMe.
• The HSE has been accused of failing to heed an abuse warning from UK authorities regarding a foster child with intellectual disabilities.
• Jennifer Guinness, the victim of one of Ireland’s most notorious 1980s kidnappings, has died.
• Zoe Ireland Drake, the American baby born prematurely in Dublin, has arrived home to Tennessee following a €30,000 donation from an anonymous Irish donor.
• George Hook told us why he’s never liked interviewing Ivana Bacik.

WORLD

A dead 50 foot sperm whale on a beach in Norfolk, England, earlier today Steve Parsons Steve Parsons

#USA: The east coast of the United States ground to a halt as an enormous snowstorm made its presence felt.

#FRANCE: Calais port closed after migrants boarded a ferry in a bid to reach Britain.

#SYRIA: 47 civilians, including children, were killed by suspected Russian bombing raids in the war-torn state.

#TRUMP: The front runner for the Republican nomination in the US presidential race reckons he could shoot someone and still not lose his support.

#ENGLAND: Four enormous sperm whales washed up dead on a beach at Skegness on the east coast of England.

INNOVATION

• Fed up of tangled headphones that break too easily? This is how you should take care of them. [TheJournal.ie]
• This is why the next iPhone is going to be absolutely huge. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

It’s been too long.

Comic Tina Fey’s impression of former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin is the stuff of legend. Alas, she hasn’t performed the caricature much since its first outing in 2008. But now she’s back.

Fey stole the show on Saturday Night Live in the US last night, parodying Palin’s endorsement of Donald Trump last week in the show’s traditional cold open.

And it’s great:

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