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

People gathered on the junction of Exhequer Street and Dame Court for an outside clubbing and protest event this evening, following legal action by the Hoxton Hotel seeking an injunction against neighbouring live music venue Yamamori Izakaya. Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• The Government is pausing the controversial review into how Special Needs Assistants are allocated after major backlash.
• A Galway man was sentenced to four months imprisonment for threatening online to kill Tánaiste Simon Harris and his family.
• Seamus Culleton’s lawyers said they’ve won a temporary stay on his deportation from the US, meaning the Irish man can remain in the country for at least the next fortnight.
• Crowds gathered outside the Hoxton Hotel in Dublin to protest against its ongoing row with longstanding nightclub and neighbour Yamamori Izakaya.
• A Romanian national who killed a Canadian tourist in Dublin city centre by “brazenly” delivering a “full force running kick” straight to his head was jailed for five and a half years.

INTERNATIONAL

The US delegation attends the next round of trilateral talks between the United States, Ukraine and Russia on Russia-Ukraine war in Geneva, Switzerland. Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council press office via AP Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council press office via AP

#WINTER OLYMPICS: The Swiss national broadcaster pulled from its website the commentary of an Olympic bobsleigh run, during which one reporter questioned at length the presence of an Israeli athlete at the Games because of his alleged support for the genocide in Gaza.

#JESSE JACKSON: Tributes flooded in following the death of reverend Jesse Jackson, the US Civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate.

#MOLDOVA: The enlargement of the European Union is a priority for Ireland during its hosting of the EU Presidency, the Minister for European Affairs said today as he met with a representative for EU candidate Moldova.

PARTING SHOT

Gerry Hutch (right) having a selfie taken with an audience member at the Ambassador Theatre last night.

DUBLIN’S AMBASSADOR THEATRE played host to the opening night of a very particular new show yesterday.

Enter stage left, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch. No – literally.

When the lights came up for the opening night of Rex Ryan’s one-man show The Monk last night, sitting in a large armchair in front of a prison-themed set was not Ryan, but Gerry Hutch himself.

Our news correspondent Eimer McAuley attended the show –  you can read about the dramatised life and times of Gerry Hutch here.