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

IRELAND

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• A UCD investigation has dismissed the ‘revenge porn’ allegations made by the college newspaper.
• Dublin’s District court heard this evening that the man charged over the murder Kenneth O’Brien said ‘I’m responsible for killing Kenneth’ when charged. 
• The sentencing of Thomas ‘Slab’ Murphy has been postponed until Friday 26 February – the day of the general election.
• The Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan is set to personally oversee the funerals of two men killed in Dublin in the past week.
• Enda Kenny was confronted by more protesters as he campaigned in Cork earlier today.
• Members of the Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) have called off a planned strike on 24 February.
• Couples who planned on holding their wedding receptions at a hotel in Tipperary are scrambling to find new venues after its closure.
• A disused army site in Co Kildare has just sold for a cool €8.2 million.
• Nobody claimed a €500,000 prize from a Friday the 13th lottery draw.

INTERNATIONAL

#ENGLAND: A court heard that former Sunderland player Adam Johnson ‘abused his position in society’  when he had a sexual encounter in his car with a 15-year-old fan who idolised him.

#BOSTON: The parents of the child who died while in the care of Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy are to sue the Cavan woman.

#LIVERPOOL: Five girls aged between 11 and 13 were knocked down outside their school this afternoon.

INNOVATION

• Changing your iPhone settings to this specific date will render it useless.
• These are the top skills you need to get headhunted.

PARTING SHOT 

NASA has released 14 space travel posters of imaginative travel destinations for people to download and print for free.