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

IRELAND

The scenes at the site of the Stardust fire in Artane, Dublin. Photo shows family members of some of those 48 people killed in the Valentines Day disco fire, attending the 41st Anniversary event at the site of the fire. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• The Department of Foreign Affairs has said that 50 Irish citizens have registered with the Irish embassy in Kyiv after the Department urged all citizens currently in the country to leave immediately.
• Ireland’s cost of living is ever-increasing. Here are some your stories about feeling the pinch.
• Gardaí in Sligo said they have secured “significant evidence” in the Tom Niland assault investigation.
• A man in his 60s died following a single vehicle crash in Co Meath in the early hours of this morning.
• A labour expert has questioned a claim by Fáilte Ireland that the country needs to fill 40,000 vacancies in the hospitality and tourism sectors.

WORLD

An instructor shows how to use a Kalashnikov assault rifle as members of a Ukrainian far-right group train in Kyiv, Ukraine. AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#SWITZERLAND: Voters have backed a near-total ban of advertising for tobacco products but were expected to reject a blanket ban on animal testing.

#CANADA: Police arrested remaining anti-vaccine protesters at US-Canada bridge.

#GERMANY: President Frank Walter Steinmeier was re-elected for a second term of five years by a special parliamentary assembly today.

PARTING SHOT

Tomorrow marks St Valentine’s Day. As many of you might be off buying chocolates and flowers – here’s something they used to exchange hundreds of years ago. 

You can read about it all here.

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