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The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Light snow on Luganquilla Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Children’s hospitals across Dublin are under extreme pressure due to the high number of sick children presenting in emergency departments and the number of very sick children already receiving care.  
• A child in Ireland has died from invasive Group A Strep.
• The government approved a new short-term let register with the aim of bringing 12,000 properties back into long-term use.
• PSNI detectives arrested two men as part of the investigation into the murder of Mark Lovell in Newry.
• The Environmental Protection Agency warned that Ireland’s rising levels of waste make it difficult to maintain or increase recycling rates.
• A proposed overhaul of the jobseeker’s benefit could change the payment structure to make it directly proportional to the recipient’s previous earnings.
• A senior diplomat and former Irish Defence Forces officer survived a bomb blast that struck a United Nations convoy he was travelling on board in Yemen. 
•  As the cold snap sets in, here’s what you need to know.

THE WORLD

The trains collided near Barcelona. Photo from Martin Sánchez, a Montcada local who has been to the scene of the collision.

#SPAIN More than 150 people were injured today when a train ran into the back of another at a station near Barcelona

#CHINA China announced a nationwide loosening of Covid-19 restrictions following protests.

#NEW ZEALAND A New Zealand court took temporary custody of a sick infant whose parents blocked life-saving heart surgery because potential blood donors could be vaccinated against Covid-19. 

PARTING SHOT

Congratulations to Maria Delaney, Editor of Journal Media’s investigative platform Noteworthy, who today won the Special Interest category at the Mental Health Media Awards.

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