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GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know to start the day.
1. After the global chaos and tariff threats by US President Donald Trump in recent days, The Journal asked every coalition TD if Taoiseach Micheál Martin should still visit the White House for St Patrick’s Day. Here’s what they said.
2. Staying with the US, millions of Americans are braced for a potentially “catastrophic” winter storm that is threatening to bring transportation chaos and blackouts, with temperatures of -46 degrees Celsius forecast in some areas.
3. Back home, a senior paediatrician has warned against any potential move by the Department of Health to cut the new RSV immunisation programme for infants after it was found to not be cost effective.
4. Commuters spoke to The Journal about the lack of public transport in the outer suburbs of Dublin, where thousands of homes have been built in the last decade.
5. The US military has said it killed two people in a strike on a boat it suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific – the first of its kind since the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro.
6. A repeat offender who “beat the crap” out of his ex-fiancée shortly after serving a prison sentence for attacking her previously has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.
7. Supermarkets have started adding anti-shoplifting security tags and visors to branded chocolate at some of their Irish supermarkets to deter shoplifters.
8. Researchers have slammed the National Lottery for what they describe as advertising that “lures children”, with previous ads featuring talking toys, tyre-swings, treehouses, and games like rock-paper-scissors.
9. The winners of The Traitors were crowned last night in a tense finale. Beware – this article does contain spoilers.
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