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

IRELAND

Wild Wicklow deer break cover to find food on a snow-covered Wicklow Gap. Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• Investigations are underway after a patient’s medical details were allegedly leaked after she had a termination at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin this week.
• A review of costs of the new National Children’s Hospital will not be able to find any individual liable for the skyrocketing overruns, it has been confirmed.
• Nurses will meet over the weekend to discuss the possibility of holding strikes on additional dates to the ones already announced.
• A substantial amount of ammunition was found during a garda operation in Co Louth.
• A woman whose boyfriend was killed and dumped in a slurry pit told the Central Criminal Court that she complained to gardaí when missing person posters were put up to find him.
• A 27 year-old man was killed in a collision between a car and a lorry in Co Limerick, while another man died following a single vehicle crash in Co Offaly. 
• An eighth person was arrested in connection with the murder of community worker Ian Ogle in Belfast last weekend.
• Anti-abortion campaigners protested outside Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth.
• A man has been charged in connection with the assault of Meath man Seán Cox in Liverpool in April last year.

INTERNATIONAL

Activists wear masks to look like U.S president Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a protest for the INF treaty in front of the American embassy in Berlin Omer Messinger / PA Images Omer Messinger / PA Images / PA Images

#COLD WAR The USA announced it would pull out from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia, a centerpiece of arms control since the Cold War.

#ROCK OFF Britain reacted with fury after a European Council document published today described Gibraltar as a “colony”.

#SYRIA A US court found the Syrian government culpable in the 2012 death of journalist Marie Colvin, ordering it to pay $302.5 million in compensation.

PARTING SHOT

The death of British comedian Jeremy Hardy at the age of 57 was also announced today.

A panellist on BBC TV and radio programmes such as Mock the Week and QI, Hardy was described by colleagues at BBC Radio 4 as “one of the funniest people around”.

If you hadn’t heard of him before, here’s one of his more relevant quips:

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