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

IRELAND

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• RTÉ broadcaster Keelin Shanley passed away aged 51.
• The nation went to the polls today. An exit poll is due around 10pm tonight.
• A nationwide Status Orange weather warning was issued by Met Éireann as Storm Ciara approaches.
• A man was charged in relation to the murder of a 46-year-old man in Kilkenny two days ago.
• Gardaí appealed for information after shots were fired at a home in Longford on two separate occasions in the last four days.
• A woman dressed in a celery costume was ejected from a Kerry polling station.
• A People Before Profit candidate for Galway West was suspended from the party after claims he ‘smashed phone’.
• The official opening ceremony of Galway 2020 due to take place this evening has been cancelled as a result of the weather warnings in place for Storm Ciara.

WORLD

A customer wearing mask, buys the tissue papers at a store in Hong Kong. Kin Cheung Kin Cheung

#CHINA: The number of cases of the deadly novel coronavirus being reported on a daily basis in China is “stabilising”.

#FRANCE: The president of France’s ice skating federation Didier Gailhaguet resigned today over a damaging sex abuse scandal engulfing his sport.

#THAILAND: A Thai soldier killed at least 20 people in a shopping centre in the Asian country.

PARTING SHOT

The Oscars are on Monday. 

It’s another excuse to watch this omnishambles again in all its glory.