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

cute bear William O’Callaghan sent us this clever picture – with the tagline ‘Polar Conditions in Strandhill’ – this afternoon.

IRISH

There was a credible bomb threat at an the Intel plant in Kildare.
Ian Bailey remains ‘a person of interest’ in the Du Plantier murder inquiry.
A man was found dead at a house in Louth.
AIB confirmed plans to outsource 170 jobs.
Met Éireann has issued five weather warnings.
The HSE rejected suggestions it has abandoned plans to put CCTV in care homes.
Fine Gael could have another Seanad headache on its hands.
Image magazine was criticised after advertising a full time unpaid PA internship.
A judge in Tralee asked a Ukrainian woman if all her children were ‘from the same stable’.

WORLD

Mideast Israel Palestinians AP / Press Association Images Friends and relatives of four French Jewish victims of an attack on a kosher grocery store last week in Paris, react during their funeral in Jerusalem. AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#JE SUIS CHARLIE: Someone is trying to trademark the phrase that has become symbolic of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office last week.

#BULGARIA: A man with links to the French terror attacks was arrested.

#DISAPPEARING ACT: A Jewish newspaper photoshopped Angela Merkel out of the Charlie Hebdo march.

#FLIGHT 8501: The cockpit voice recorder from the crashed AirAsia plane was retrieved from the sea.

INNOVATION

This interactive adventure story on Twitter is pretty ingenious.
An Australian website lets you send an envelope full of glitter to your enemies. [Mashable]

PARTING SHOT

FiveThirtyEight has compiled a definitive list of all the moves that make grown men cry. We can’t even think about Up without bawling.

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