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

IRISH

Gemma Nolan funeral in Holy Family Church Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• The terms of reference for the mother-and-baby home inquiry were released
• A homeless man was found dead in Temple Bar in Dublin
• An alcohol consumption project has won the BT Young Scientist Award
• The new editors of the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent were named
• Nurses at Beaumont Hospital protested over ongoing issues 
• The Irishman allegedly punched by his brother in Sydney has regained consciousness
• A record number of passengers flew via Knock Airport last year
• Workers threaten to go on strike over Roscommon Council‘s ‘bullyboy tactics’
• A family of eight missing from Northern Ireland was located in the Republic
• Bad weather led to flight cancellations and power outages 

INTERNATIONAL

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#FRANCE Today has been a shocking for France – we’ve been covering the two hostage situations, and the killings of the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings in our liveblog. 

#SAUDI ARABIA A blogger received the first 50 of 1,000 lashes for insulting Islam.

#AUSTRIA A skier who died in Austria 86 years ago was finally identified

#RUSSIA Russia was condemned for banning transsexual people and transvestites from driving 

#AUSTRALIA Parts of Melbourne Airport were evacuated after a security alert directed at airline Tigerair

INNOVATION

• Here are the new products from the tech conference in Las Vegas that you might be seeing on shelves soon. [The Guardian]
• How much would you pay for a rare NES game? Er, how about $90k? [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Hamburg has a very long highway (Autobahn 7, to give it its correct name) running straight through it. Now there are plans to cover it with parks, allowing the cars to run beneath them. Nice. [Vox]