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

IRELAND

Tayto Park will open it’s doors for 2016 on Friday. Here's Jayden Whelan (aged 7) at its new ‘Ice Valley Experience’.

• Facing 33 charges, former Anglo CEO David Drumm was granted bail.
• Faisal Ellahi was jailed 13 years for raping a young woman with Down syndrome.
• Luas operator Transdev has cancelled plans to operate a private bus service on St Patrick’s Day.
• More than 100 families have been told to leave their rental homes in the West Dublin suburb of Tyrrelstown.
• Dublin City Council has defended a controversial 1916 banner at College Green.
• There’s a possible criminal element to a fire at a teaching prefab at a Galway primary school.
• A garda who was stabbed under the eye on Halloween was awarded damages of €35,000.
• Aer Lingus has begun two new routes to fly out of Cork Airport.

INTERNATIONAL

A creation by Contradiction Fashion group during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Moscow. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#WITHDRAWAL: Vladimir Putin has ordered that Russian forces be withdrawn from Syria from tomorrow.

#ALASKA: Sarah Palin has cancelled campaigning for Donald Trump after her husband was hospitalised after a snowmobile accident.

#RIGHT TURN: The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) made strong gains in three state polls.

#STUTTERING START:  Top Gear host Chris Evans has apologised after the show filmed a stunt beside Britain’s best-known war memorial.

INNOVATION

• Stanford University has developed a series of microbots that can pull over 2,000 times their own weight.
• The Dubai World Drone Prix is like something out of the Wipeout video games.  

PARTING SHOT

Our Principals PAC, a new anti-Trump grouping in the US, is spending millions on TV ads to stop the Republican frontrunner. This ad puts together some of the awful things he has said about women.