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Jack Gleeson and Fionn O’Shea pictured on the red carpet at the IFTA awards this evening. Rolling News Rolling News

IRELAND

• Enoch Burke’s attempt to stop an appeals board from holding any further hearings into his sacking was struck out by the High Court
• Minister of State for Special Education, Michael Moynihan, was unable to provide clarity on what will happen when the pause on a nationwide SNA review is lifted during a tetchy interview on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland
• A man who sexually abused five of his children, who were locked in a room for days at a time without food and forced to drink urine, has been jailed for 20 years
• Laya Healthcare announced another increase in health insurance premiums, with prices set to rise by an average of 4.7% from 1 April
• The Hoxton Hotel said it doesn’t want Yamamori Izakaya to close and has welcomed offers of mediation from the owner of the property
• Community leaders called for increased garda presence in Dublin City centre after an attack near Temple Bar in Dublin left a man with such significant injuries that gardaí have not yet been able to identify the victim
• Ireland’s Ben Lynch qualified for the freestyle skiing halfpipe final at the Winter Olympics
• Protestors gathered outside the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) headquarters in Blanchardstown to call for a boycott of Irish football matches against Israel in the Uefa Nations League

INTERNATIONAL

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor being driven home following questioning by police on Thursday. Reuters Reuters

#TARIFFS: The US Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump exceeded his authority in imposing a swath of tariffs that upended global trade, as EU officials called for stability in the EU-US trading relationship

#UK: Former close protection officers to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are being asked to “consider carefully” whether they witnessed anything relevant to the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein and his associates

#EPSTEIN: The estate of convicted US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein agreed to pay up to $35m (€29.7m) to settle the outstanding legal claims of potentially dozens of victims, according to a court filing Thursday

#IRAN: Iran has warned that US bases, facilities and assets would be “legitimate targets” if the United States follows through on its military threats and attacks

#RIP: Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria star Eric Dane has died at the age of 53, less than a year after the actor publicly revealed that he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND)

PARTING SHOT

Promotional material for the show depicted animated characters. Aiken Aiken

Aiken Promotions was swift out of the traps with its defence of the K-Pop Forever! Tribute concert that opened the Irish leg of its tour at the SSE Arena in Belfast last night.

By midnight, Aiken and the venue had released identical statements that they were “aware of some feedback” on that evening’s concert – which has another 22 Irish dates to go over the coming months, from Castlebar to Co Kerry, including three nights at Dublin’s 3Arena and two in Cork.

The promoter and venue claimed the “majority” had “enjoyed the show” but admitted the performance was “not what some expected”.

Comments from disgruntled parents under Aiken’s post on Facebook make it clear that some had brought their children along to Belfast’s SSE Arena expecting a performance more strongly themed on Netflix’s hit kids’ movie KPop Demon Hunters.

The show covered Korean pop more generally.

Valerie Flynn has the full story here.