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

IRELAND

A mural in Dublin City Centre today showing 'The Rubberbandits' along with a quote referencing US President Donald Trump Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• A 92-year old man died after he was knocked down in Cork.
• The jury presiding over the rape trial involving two rugby internationals taken to the scene of the alleged sex attack.
• Highly ‘pathogenic‘ bird flu found in eagle in Tipperary.
• A 19-year-old man was charged with the murder of a man in west Dublin.
• A well-known sex worker rights activist died suddenly.
• The trial of the former head of Anglo Irish Bank began today.
• A man has been arrested in London over the 2010 murder of Warren O’Connor in Coolock in 2010.
• Gardaí once again appealed to the public for information over a Limerick school bus crash which left 32 people injured.

WORLD

People stroll on the snow-covered Champ de Mars during a snowfall in Paris. Michel Euler Michel Euler

#REVERSE: Bermuda has become the first country to legalise and then repeal same-sex marriage.

#STOCK MARKETS: Asian markets took fresh beating as the global slump continued.

#HAITI: Workers for aid agency Oxfam have been accused of using prostitutes while working in the country.

PARTING SHOT

Admit it, you didn’t know much about the Longitude line-up when it was announced today. No? Just me so? Fair enough.

Have a look over at DailyEdge.ie , they think the line-up is the best in years.

I’d think similar if I knew just one song from one of the artists.

The line-up Longitude Longitude

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