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

The Complex arts centre in Dublin’s north inner city is closing after last-ditch negotiations with the Government and Dublin City Council failed to secure an alternative premises. Rolling News Rolling News

IRELAND

• A Dublin-based garda who carried out a “protracted assault” on his then wife, also a member of the force, has walked free from court on a suspended sentence
• Enoch Burke is due to be arrested and taken to prison for the fifth time after he returned to Wilson’s Hospital School this week
• Niamh Smyth, the Minister of State with responsibility for AI, met today with executives from X, as news comes that the company has refused to come before the Oireachtas Media Committee next week to answer questions
• Irish man Sean Binder said he feels “enormous relief” after being acquitted of all charges, including membership of a criminal organisation, fraud, money laundering, and smuggling, at a court in Greece
• RTÉ Chief Financial Officer Mari Hurley has resigned from the position less than 18 months after starting the role to take up the role of chief financial officer at Ires Reit, Ireland’s largest private landlord
• Some retired public servants are paying as little as €12.88 a week to live in State-owned houses in the Phoenix Park, the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has been told

INTERNATIONAL

US President Donald Trump pictured taking questions from reporters this afternoon. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GREENLAND US President Donald Trump has signalled that he may impose trade tariffs on countries that do not support his push to acquire Greenland

#GAZA The US administration has announced the formation of a Gaza “Board of Peace,” a key phase two element of a US-backed plan to end the conflict in the Palestinian territory

#UKRAINE Ukrainian and United States officials will hold talks in Miami tomorrow to discuss security guarantees and Ukraine’s economic recovery, Kyiv’s ambassador to the US has confirmed

#SOUTH KOREA Former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to five years in prison for obstructing justice and other crimes linked to his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024

PARTING SHOT

LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?

REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably

LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack. pic.twitter.com/HVyLptX3D7

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 15, 2026

Irish journalist Niall Stanage drew an angry response from White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt yesterday after he was asked for his opinion about what led to the killing of Renee Good, who was shot dead by an immigration enforcement agent in Minnesota last week.

At a press briefing, Stanage, who is a reporter with The Hill in Washington DC, asked Leavitt to explain a statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who had said members of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) were doing “everything correctly”.

What the tense exchange in the video above.