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

IRELAND

The Central Bank is releasing 4.5 million commemorative 2 euro coins into general circulation. Jason Clarke Photography Jason Clarke Photography

• Gardaí sought the public’s help in finding a missing mother and her one-week-old baby.
• Arrests were made after designer drug 2C-B hospitalised six young people.
• The house of a man who was found dead in the Grand Canalwas searched.
• The ‘biggest protest in Ireland ever’ was promised before the general election over water charges.
• More than a thousand new jobs were announced.
• Squatters in Dublin city centre were given two weeks to leave a former guesthouse.
• A new plan to combat domestic violence was launched.
• A convicted murderer was sentenced to ten years in prison for burning down a house just days after being released from prison.
• The last Traveller families were due to be evicted from an illegal halting site in Louth.
• One of Dublin city’s main hospitals told emergency patients to stay away.
• A report into the death of a baby boy in a Portlaoise hospital identified “significant failings” in his treatment.
• More than a dozen men were arrested over a St Patrick’s Day row in Mullingar.
• Enda Kenny hung out with billionaires.
• There were some Lotto headaches ahead of a €12 million jackpot.

WORLD

A police officer has her face and uniform splattered with red paint that was thrown by protesters during a lightning rally at the US Embassy in Manila, the Philippines. Bullit Marquez / PA Wire Bullit Marquez / PA Wire / PA Wire

#AUSTRIA: Asylum claims are going to be slashed. [AFP]

#FRANCE: A three-year-old girl died after allegedly choking on a Kinder Surprise toy.

#PAKISTAN: At least 21 people died when gunmen attacked a university.

#MIDDLE EAST: Fighters with the so-called Islamic State are getting a pay cut. [Sky News]

#MOLDOVA: Protesters broke into parliament. [BBC News]

#STOCK MARKET: Markets across the world took a tumble. [Business Insider]

#WORLD: 2015 was the hottest year ever, according to Noaa.

#UNITED KINGDOM: A 10-year-old Muslim child was interviewed by police after he wrote in his primary school English class that he lived with his family in a ‘terrorist house’ rather than a ‘terraced house’.

#UNITED STATES: Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump for president.

INNOVATION

• Scientists discovered what appears to be a ninth planet in our Solar System. [The Guardian]
• Irish startup Soundwave was bought by Spotify.
• The Hyperloop took another step towards becoming a reality. [The Next Web]

PARTING SHOT

Someone drew a penis on a frozen lake in Sweden and now no one can get rid of it. [DailyEdge.ie]
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