LAST UPDATE | 21 Jan

GOOD MORNING.

Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.

Children in care

1. An Irish judge insisted that a transgender child in care be called by their “original name”, and remarks were made about a child being a “biological girl” in “reality” during reviews of aftercare plans in the Dublin District Court last year.

Barcelona

2. One person has died and 37 people have been injured after a train near Barcelona ploughed into the rubble of a collapsed wall last night, just days after another major rail crash in Spain. 

Davos

3. US President Donald Trump is once again en route to the World Economic Forum in Davos after his Air Force One plane was forced to turn around due to a “minor electrical issue”. 

Online safety

4. Gráinne Seoige is to tell the Oireachtas Media Committee that laws do not currently protect victims of image-based sexual abuse.

Troubles Legacy Act

5. British MPs are set to debate the removal of a provision from the previous Tory government’s Troubles Legacy Act that would have allowed perpetrators of Troubles-related crimes to be given immunity from prosecution.

Shinzo Abe

6. The gunman who killed Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been found guilty and jailed for life, more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination shocked the world.

Palestine

7. An Irish activist has been deported from Israel after being arrested in the occupied West Bank while taking part in an international solidarity presence with a Palestinian family facing sustained settler harassment.

Domestic violence

8. Former Garda Margaret Loftus has said the experience of pursuing justice after experiencing domestic abuse at the hands of her Garda ex-husband was as “traumatising and damaging as the abuse”.

Starlink wars

9. Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is due to hold a press conference in Dublin today to speak about his ongoing online spat with Tesla boss Elon Musk.