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

IRELAND

U2 Fans from Brazil after they bought tickets for this July's Croke Park concert in Stephen's Green Shopping Centre today. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• The Northern Ireland Secretary announced an election for 2 March
• A man died after falling off a roof in Kerry
• House prices are forecast to rise by double digit percentage points this year
• U2 tickets sold out in minutes – but could be bought for €1,000
• The body of a 16-year-old was found in Cork
• A former Anglo Irish Bank executive was fined for failing to keep proper record of an €8 million loan
• The family of Dale Creighton were unhappy with the sentences given to his killers
• A Dublin man was jailed for membership of the Real IRA
• A woman in her 60s died in a road accident

INTERNATIONAL

Angler Alan Wilson, from Glasgow, on the River Tay in Kenmore, near Perth, Scotland on the opening day of the salmon fishing season. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#ORLANDO: The wife of the Orlando nightclub shooter was arrested today by the FBI.

#BRAZIL: 26 inmates were killed as gangs beheaded rivals in a Brazilian prison riot.

#MEXICO: At least five people were killed in a shooting at a nightclub in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen.

PARTING SHOT

This video is going to be used to lure Americans to holiday in Ireland. Will it do the trick?