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

Protesters outside Dáil Éireann today, for an opposition party protest against the Government’s Residential Tenancies Bill which will pass tonight. Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• The HSE has widened a review into a surgeon who performed spinal surgeries on children at Temple Street Children’s Hospital to cover more surgeries performed by the consultant.
• Former garda Margaret Loftus, who experienced domestic abuse at the hands of her garda ex-husband, has told TDs and Senators that her experience of dealing with the justice system “utterly brought me to my knees”. 
• The group representing rank and file gardaí voted to take industrial action over the St Patrick’s festival in a dispute over allowances and pay.
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin named Freddie Scappaticci in the Dáil as the former British army agent referred to as ‘Stakeknife’.
• Sinn Féin came under stinging criticism from government ministers and MEPs after the party voted against funding for the EU’s €90 billion support package for Ukraine.
• An official in the Trump administration said that the Irishman being detained by ICE, Seamus Culleton, is an “illegal alien” who “failed to depart” the US after his visa expired. 

INTERNATIONAL

The road blocked off before the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., Canada. The road is blocked off before the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., Canada, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (Jesse Boily / The Canadian Press via AP The road is blocked off before the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., Canada, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (Jesse Boily / The Canadian Press via AP / The Canadian Press via AP

#TUMBLER RIDGE: Canada is in mourning, Prime Minister Mark Carney today said, after a lone shooter killed at least nine people, including seven at a school, and injured dozens more in a remote western town.

#RIP: Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek died “peacefully this morning” at the age of 48, his family said in a statement.

#INVESTIGATION: Arizona police released a man they detained for questioning in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC’s Today Show host Savannah Guthrie. 

#GOING DOWNHILL: The former girlfriend of a Norwegian athlete who admitted to having an affair during a live TV interview after winning a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics said it is “hard to forgive” the infidelity.

PARTING SHOT

Dublin City Council Dublin City Council

THE PRE-PLANNING DESIGN images for a pedestrianised College Green have been unveiled by Dublin City Council.

The council published mockups for what College Green – which sits ahead of Trinity College – and Dame Street leading up to the junction with South Great George’s Street, is currently shaping up to look like once the area has been fully pedestrianised.

A proposed visual image of what College Green could look like. Dublin City Council Dublin City Council

Plans are in place to reroute buses that currently travel through the area. Dublin City Council Dublin City Council