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

IRELAND

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar shakes hands with Apple CEO Tim Cook at an IDA Ireland event in Dublin city today. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Fianna Fáil said it is going to write to Sipo to request an investigation into Leo Varadkar’s comments about his political opponents’ stance on the National Broadband Plan.
• A man is in a critical condition in Cork University Hospital after being doused with petrol and set alight in an attack in his home in Mayfield in Cork city.
• John Delaney, the former CEO of the Football Association Ireland, resigned from Uefa’s Executive Committee.
• An Offaly man was jailed for six years for sexually abusing his second cousin over 45 years ago.
• A homeless man who sexually assaulted a woman after leading her down a laneway in Cork city was sentenced to five years in jail.
• Ian Bailey appeared before the High Court in relation to a warrant seeking his arrest and extradition to France over the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.
• Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty has written to Virgin Media objecting to a head-to-head debate between the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael leaders.
• Twenty-eight motorists were hit with fines totalling €266,000 after failing to turn up to court to face charges for repeatedly dodging M50 tolls.
• Gardaí in Galway seized more than €175,000 in cash and a large quantity of cocaine after discovering a cocaine processing laboratory in the city.
• An in-depth investigation by Noteworthy revealed that over 10,000 trees have been cut down by councils since 2015 with many having incomplete records.

WORLD

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visiting the Pavegen stand, a company that converts footsteps into energy, at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London today. Leon Neal / PA Wire/PA Images Leon Neal / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#BREXIT: It won’t stop Northern Ireland leaving the European Union, but Stormont has voted to reject Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

#ASIA: At least three people have died from a SARS-like illness as it was confirmed the virus has spread to a fourth country.

#AUSTRALIA: Thunderstorms and giant hail battered parts of Australia’s east coast after “apocalyptic” dust storms swept across drought-stricken areas, as extreme weather patterns collided in the wildfire-fatigued country.

#DAVOS: The world’s billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60% of the global population, charity Oxfam said today, ahead of the opening of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland.

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