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IRELAND

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• A man was sentenced to 10 years for assisting in the “disgraceful and inhuman” murder of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods.
• Siblings Enoch and Ammi Burke were physically removed from a courtroom by members of An Garda Síochána for interrupting proceedings before a High Court judge.
• Minister for Employment Simon Coveney said he believes Ireland is “over the worst” of job cuts at multinational tech companies.
• A man who was shot dead in Australia has been named locally as Damian Conlon from Sligo.
• Obectors have described €100 million plans to redevelop St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre in Dublin as “bland”, “uninspired” and “generic”.  
• A man accused of flying a drone in “a critical area” close to Dublin Airport was granted bail but ordered not to operate unmanned aircraft systems.
• The type of weather event that caused the ‘Beast from the East’ five years ago may potentially bring snow to Ireland in late February or early March.  

THE WORLD

A city centre damaged by Russian shelling in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#TURKEY AND SYRIA The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has climbed to more than 22,000.

#US A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object over Alaska smaller than the huge Chinese balloon that was shot down at the weekend.

#UKRAINE Russia unleashed bombers, drones and rockets in a barrage of attacks on Ukrainian targets.

PARTING SHOT

The Journal’s FactCheck unit, which investigates claims to determine facts from falsities, has found that a video which TheLiberal.ie claimed showed “5 bus loads of migrants in Santry/Ballymun” in fact was of buses bringing student athletes to the Leinster Schools Cross Country Championships.

Read the full FactCheck here.