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

IRELAND

New Zealand All Black Aaron Smit trains with young players at Seapoint Rugby Club in Dublin. Naoise Culhane Photography Naoise Culhane Photography

• Pat Hickey’s lawyer says his client will pay the €410,000 bond needed to get his passport back.
• Tributes have been paid to a 30-year-old Mayo woman who died after falling ill on flight from Cape Town.
• Almost one in five road death victims in 2013 tested positive for illegal drugs.
• St Patrick’s Cathedral has apologised to the victims of convicted child rapist Patrick O’Brien.
• Golden Discs will be moving into 80 Tesco stores.
• It now takes up to a third of a working couple’s income to pay the mortgage on their first home.
• Ireland has had the third-biggest spike in job searches from the US after since Donald Trump’s victory.

WORLD

Commuters in the city of Frankfurt on from the headquarters of the European Central Bank. AP Photo / Michael Probst AP Photo / Michael Probst / Michael Probst

#TRUMP’S TEAM: Donald Trump has announced two more members of his administration, Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn. Both men have faced allegations of racism in the past.

#LANDMARK RULING: A British girl who died after a terminal cancer battle won the right to have her body cryogenically frozen.

#GIVEN THE BOOT: Volkswagen is cutting 30,000 jobs worldwide.

#GOOD SAMARITANS: Dozens of people in India have been calling a hospital to donate kidneys to the country’s foreign minister.

INNOVATION

• After the UK’s landmark ruling, people have been asking what the implications are of freezing your body?
• The technology of smart homes - keeping tabs on your house through an app.

PARTING SHOT

Filip Scridon Filip Scridon

This imposing photo of Dublin’s Custom House has won the top Irish prize in the world’s biggest photography competition.