An elderly man walks holding an umbrella, during a snowfall, backdropped by a large poster in Bucharest. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

HERE ARE THE things we learned, loved and shared today.

THINGS WE LEARNED:

#GARDA DEATH: Justice minister Alan Shatter has said a car found burnt out in Co Armagh over the weekend is probably the one used by the raiders who killed Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe to escape from the scene. Shatter was in Dundalk today to visit Donohoe’s colleagues. It has also emerged that the raiders left a significant sum of money behind them in their raid on Lordship Credit Union in Bellurgan on Friday.

#COURTS: A 31-year-old woman has been found guilty of the manslaughter of a 59-year-old in Co Galway in 2011. RTÉ says Maura Thornton will be sentenced in March.

#PHONE SCAM: Ireland’s telecommunications regulator has said mobile phone users who returned a missed call from a foreign number – only to find out it was a premium-rate phone line in Slovenia – should expect not to be charged.

#WHAT THE FLIUCH?: If you’re heading out, wear a hood and wrap up warm: it’s going to be very windy tonight. Met Éireann is warning of winds of up to 120 kilometres per hour on the west coast, and of up to 90 kilometres an hour elsewhere, as stormy weather continues. Earlier, Galway City suffered flash flooding after continued rain.

#SEPTIC TANKS: With only a few days to go until the end of registrations for septic tanks, one in three eligible households still haven’t registered for mandatory inspections. Here’s the full county-by-county list of who’s registered.

THINGS WE LOVED:

• The, ahem, testicular fortitude of these fellas trying out a prototype ‘wing suit’. It’s a lengthy video so if you don’t have too much time, skip to 13 minutes in and prepare to be amazed.
• Buzzfeed’s quite simply groundbreaking research into the killing of time.

Flowers lay on a slab of the Holocaust Memorial to commemorate the victims of the Nazi regime at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin, yesterday, January 27. (Markus Schreiber/AP)

THINGS WE SHARED:

• Ladies and gentlemen, your new wallpaper: This incredible image of the Earth and the stars. Whoa.
• Want to play old NES games in your internet browser? Aren’t you lucky.
• And, with that in mind, this surprisingly funny take on what Downton Abbey would be like if it was actually a game for the Super Nintendo:

(YouTube: Bill Kiley)

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