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

IRELAND

Brendan O' Carroll, selected by St. Patrick's Festival to lead this years parade with (L to R) Eva Crean, aged 7 from Stepaside Dublin and Ella Hannon Moss aged 6 from Mountmelick, Co. Laois on Moore Street today. Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• A man in his 60s was shot dead in Walkinstown in a case of mistaken identity.
• A mother and her 4-year-old boy are amoung a number of people injured in a five-vehicle car crash in Cork.
• Formal complaints were made to RTÉ about last weekend’s Late Late Show.
• Seven water charge protesters were in court today accused of breaching a court order telling them to stay at least 20 metres from water meter installations.
• Armed gardaí were deployed to the funeral of Barney McGinley.
• The Central Bank still doesn’t know what to do with its golden ball.
• Comedian Brendan O’Carroll will lead this year’s St Patrick’s Day parade.
• Further measures to crack down on the use of sunbeds were announced.
• Irish banks were targeted by an multinational criminal gang in ‘cyber heists’.

INTERNATIONAL 

Philadelphia firefighters work the scene of an overnight blaze. Bone-chilling, single digit temperatures have gripped the region. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#UK: MI5 has been accused of covering up sexual abuse at Kincora Boy’s Home in Belfast.

#FRANCE: Two ex-prostitutes have dropped a civil suit against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

#GREECE: The country was in talks with its eurozone partners today, but it’s two weeks away from running out of money.

INNOVATION 

• Scientists think there could be life on Jupiter’s moon Europa. [Vox]
• Ancient rocks in Australia show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion years ago. [ScienceDaily]

PARTING SHOT 

It’s hit headlines, but what does ISIS really want? [The Atlantic]

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