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

IRELAND

Former bishop Eamon Casey(second from right) in Dublin in 1985. He died today aged 89. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Controversial bishop Eamon Casey died aged 89.
• The Taoiseach had to cancel some planned events in the US due to a snowstorm.
• Fianna Fáil’s plans for North-South reunification got a cautious welcome from Sinn Féin.
• A man in his mid-60s was released without charge by gardaí investigating a fatal stabbing in Galway.
• The grieving sister of Deirdre McCarthy, whose body was dumped in the ocean, wept in court as she told how her family will be “haunted forever” by the death.
• The High Court dismissed a challenge brought by a man with alleged links to Islamic terrorism against the State’s bid to deport him.
• The mostly Syrian refugees who will arrive in Ballaghaderreen will be entitled to an allowance of €19.10 per week as they await refugee status.
• Gardaí appealed for witnesses to an assault outside a pub in Co Cork and also asked for help finding man who has been missing from Gorey since Friday.

WORLD

Protestors from campaign group Avaaz demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament in London as MPs debate Brexit Dominic Lipinski PA Wire / PA Images Dominic Lipinski PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#ETHIPIA: At least 46 people died and dozens more were hurt in a giant landslide at Ethiopia’s largest rubbish dump outside Addis Ababa.

#IRAQ: Photos have emerged of priceless remains lying in ruins at a museum in Mosul which was destroyed by the so-called Islamic State group.

#SOUTH AFRICA: A mother accused of fabricating the kidnapping of her one-month-old baby girl has appeared in court after her claims triggered a national manhunt.

PARTING SHOT

Scarlett Johansson took the reins of Saturday Night Live over the weekend – with one of the stand-out sketches being her take on Ivanka Trump.

But it was a less prominent sketch called Translator that caught the attention of Irish viewers because the opening and closing shot of the lab setting is the Convention Centre in Dublin.

Comments are closed as legal proceedings are ongoing into a number of the above stories.

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