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

IRELAND

Seagulls land on the partly frozen pond this morning in St Stephen's Green. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A court ruled that the treatment of the “Hooded Men” wasn’t torture
• A Sinn Féin senator was suspended over a retweet
• A man was charged with the theft of money from a Dublin garda station
• The Central Credit Register was launched
• A trial continued in the case of a man accused of murdering his infant son
• The NTA said that overcrowding on the Luas Green Line should be over
• A search for a missing girl  intensified
• Leo Varadkar  headed to Berlin to meet Angela Merkel
• Gardaí  were investigating a robbery of a McDonald’s in Limerick
• A teenager died in a car crash in Limerick

INTERNATIONAL

Police at the scene of a school shooting in Maryland, USA. Mark Wilson Mark Wilson

#MARYLAND: A shooter was killed and two others injured in a shooting at a Maryland high school.

#CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA: Data firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) has suspended its chief executive Alexander Nix, pending a full investigation, from his role in the wake of a snowballing scandal relating to the ‘harvesting’ of 50 million US voters’ Facebook profiles.

#AUSTIN: Another mail bomb explosion was reported in Texas, with police saying they are now dealing with a serial bomber.

PARTING SHOT

An Irish photographer has been shortlisted in the world’s biggest photography competition.