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

IRELAND

Brown Thomas concierges John Cunningham and Ciaran Bass on Dublin's Grafton Street Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

•  Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fail leader Micheál Martin held crunch talks as both say they wish to avert a general election.
• A new opinion poll which showed FG dropping and FF catching may influence their discussions.
• The work of the Eighth Amendment Committee may hinge on the talks as well.
• A 20-year-old woman was arrested and later released after three men were stabbed in Belfast.
• Tributes were paid after the death of much-loved Riordans’ star Biddy White Lennon.
• An appeal was launched to help to find a 71-year-old man missing from a Dublin care home.
• Over 200 inspections at homeless hotels and B&Bs have been carried out following complaints.

WORLD

Sheep at sunrise in a snow-covered field near Ribblehead in the Yorkshire Dales, UK. Danny Lawson / PA Images Danny Lawson / PA Images / PA Images

#OXFORD CIRCUS: Two men handed themselves into police following an altercation that led to the closure of two Tube stations and mass panic in central London last night.

#TEXAS: A woman who was charged with a plot to assassinate Barack Obama with a homemade bomb was caught because of hair from her cats.

#POTY: Time Magazine has denied a claim from US President Donald Trump that he has refused the title of 2017 Person of the Year.

PARTING SHOT

The New York Times goes to meet Fiona, Cincinnati Zoo’s famous hippo that has become a social media star and has people flying in from all over the world.