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

IRELAND

Ireland AM's Deric Hartigan with Eddie McGuinness and friends ahead of The Outing Winter Pride Festival on Valentine's Weekend at Treacy's West County Hotel, Ennis Co Clare. Eamon Ward Eamon Ward

• Seamus Culleton, the Irishman who is being detained by immigration officials in the United States, could be deported home to Ireland as early as next week.
• A man in his 20s who was arrested in connection with the murder of Daniel Aruebose was released overnight without charge.
• A wealthy New Yorker who strangled his father at a five-star midlands resort after the 66-year-old had travelled from the US on a “mission of mercy” to help his son was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
• A Status Yellow low temperature/ice warning has been issued for all of Ireland from 9pm tomorrow.
• A warning was issued over the appearance of hemlock – a highly poisonous flowering plant – on beaches along the coast in both Dublin and Meath.
• Ireland will play Israel, Austria and Kosovo in the upcoming edition of the Nations League.
• Musgrave, which owns SuperValu and Centra, announced that up to 82 jobs are at risk of being cut as a result of a “rapidly changing market.”
• Gardaí are investigating an arson attack at the Limerick Mosque & Islamic Cultural Centre.
• A Tusla team reviewing cases that were closed off by the agency during the Covid-19 period is set to work with the department of education to check that over 23,000 children are still in school.
• Areas of Irish airspace have been closed more than 10 times since the beginning of the year due to staff shortages in air traffic control, The Journal learned. 
• Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch confirmed he will be running in the upcoming Dublin Central by-election. 
• Conor McGregor was served with a compliance notice for failing to disclose the commercial nature of content posted on his Instagram relating to Forged Irish Stout.
• Have you been rained on waiting for a bus recently? It might be because hardly any new bus shelters were built in Dublin in the last year. 
• The Strawberry Alarm Clock on FM104 has been Dubliners’ favourite breakfast show for almost 30 years – until now. Radio Nova claimed the number one position in Dublin Morning Glory with PJ Gallagher and Jim McCabe.

INTERNATIONAL

Ukraine's Vladyslav Heraskevych, with his helmet, which features pictures of people killed in the war with Russia. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#WINTER OLYMPICS: Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych believes the decision to disqualify him from the Winter Olympics was a victory for Russian propaganda.

#MAN UTD: Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe apologised that his claim Britain has been “colonised” by migrants “offended some people in the UK and Europe”.

#CANADA: The small community in the Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge gathered to mourn the victims of one of the country’s worst-ever mass shootings.

#EPSTEIN FILES: ’Washed-up loser lawyer!’: How Pam Bondi’s hearing on Epstein descended into yelling and chaos

#RIP: Katie Holmes said the death of her “beloved” Dawson’s Creek co-star James Van Der Beek is “a lot to process” as she recalled their “adventures of a unique youth”.

PARTING SHOT

Fine Gael Senator Joe O'Reilly Sam Boal Sam Boal

Fine Gael Senator Joe O’Reilly won a car on last week’s Late Late Show, which he has described as “a lovely surprise”. 

O’Reilly, who represents Cavan in the Seanad, won the Seat compact SUV worth over 30k by answering a trivia question. 

The question was: “The iconic DeLorean car featured in which hit movie franchise, alongside the characters Marty McFly and Doc Brown?”

And the answer, of course, was the 1985 classic Back to the Future.

“It’s a lovely surprise,” said O’Reilly. “If I’m home for the Late Late, I do the competition. It’s purely fun and it’s just one entry.”