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

IRELAND

Cara Rescue Dogs Home deals with damage from flooding. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• Sinn Féin has submitted a motion of no confidence in Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald and Fianna Fail has said in his no confidence in her position.
• A snow and ice warning for Ireland has been issued as temperatures are set to plunge to -4 degrees celsius tonight.
• A verdict of ‘death by misadventure’ has been found into the five fatalities in the Buncrana Pier tragedy.
• Met Éireann issued a status yellow ice and snow warning for the country with temperatures set to dip to below freezing.
• A woman who alleges she was attacked by a man she met on Tinder has said she feared people would judge her for getting into a stranger’s car.
• A search is underway off the coast of Galway after a fisherman was reported missing.
• Dozens of families were evacuated from their homes following severe flooding in the midlands.
• The acting Garda Commissioner has confirmed no gardaí will be disciplined over the breath test scandal.
• New guidelines were published over what constitutes “substantial change” to a rental property justifying a rent increase.

WORLD

A woman cries in front of a fence enclosing the Mar de Plata Naval Base in Argentina. Esteban Felix / PA Images Esteban Felix / PA Images / PA Images

#ARA SAN JUAN: Argentina’s navy has said that a sound consistent with an explosion has been detected in the area where they are searching for a missing submarine.

#THE CROCODILE: Weeks after being sacked by former president Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to take power in Zimbabwe.

#BRAZIL: Former Brazil and Manchester City footballer Robinho has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of rape.

PARTING SHOT

The artist group who painted the giant Stormzy mural in Smithfield, Dublin has launched a visual protest after Dublin City Council issued them with a removal warning.

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