Peter (10) and Rory O Connor (10) from Co Cork, Mallow jump for joy in Trinity College Dublin after achieving a Bronze Scouting Ireland Honour for saving their grandmother from a house fire. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

IRELAND

• A new poll shows that support for Sinn Féin is at its highest level in a year
• Health Minister Simon Harris defended the use of prefabs on hospital sites
• One person was hospitalised after a fire at a Ballsbridge eatery
• Gardaí appealed for help in locating a woman missing from Lucan since 6 February
• Gardaí foiled a robbery by a man wearing a balaclava and armed with a crowbar
• Michael Healy-Rae said that he agrees with Trump on deregulation
• A man who drove a van at high speed at a garda was jailed for three years
• Mannix Flynn said that Apollo House had “completely failed”
• A man aged 21 was killed in a late-night collision in Donegal
• A man with a loaded handgun was chased by gardaí through a Dublin park
• There was dismay as TFMR Ireland was excluded from the Citizens’ Assembly

WORLD

Reporter Shifa Gardi, who was killed in Iraq. Rudaw Kurmanci Rudaw Kurmanci

#GERMANY A car ploughed into pedestrians in Heidelberg, injuring three people.

#TRUMP Donald Trump appealed for money from supporters a day after it emerged some media were not allowed into a press briefing.

#IRAQ A Kurdish news anchor was killed covering the battle for Mosul.

#EXPLAINER We’ve broken down why tens of thousands of people face starvation in war-torn South Sudan

PARTING SHOT

The film Lion, about a young boy who fell asleep on a train in India and ended up being adopted by an Australian woman, was released this year. It’s nominated for an Oscar tomorrow night. The real-life man at the centre of the film, Saroo Brierley, told his story to The Guardian.