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Here's What Happened Today: Monday

Controversies around McCabe and Tusla revelations continue, top supermarket revealed and RTÉ receives complaints over Late Late Valentine’s special.

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

IRELAND

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INTERNATIONAL 

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#NORTH KOREA: There are calls for the UN to step in after Kim Jong-Un ‘personally guided’ a ballistic missile launch.

#HUNGER STRIKE: Russia has ordered a prisoner to pay his own medical costs after he went on hunger strike over jail conditions, his lawyer said today, a move that could curb protests against poor treatment of convicts.

#FRENCH ALPS: At least four people have died in the French Alps after an avalanche engulfed nine people who were in an off-piste area near the ski resort of Tignes.

#BREXIT: British businesses are struggling to fill in vacancies because of a drop in the supply of European Union nationals following the Brexit vote.

PARTING SHOT

Beyoncé only won an ‘urban’ Grammy last night – here’s why that’s a problem.

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[DailyEdge.ie]