Updated 22:59

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

Rehab Group’s Angela Kerins at a board meeting today where her salary was revealed to the media. (Image: Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• It was revealed that Rehab‘s Angela Kerins earns €240,000 a year.
• Gardaí are treating the death of Sonia Blount at a Dublin hotel yesterday as murder.
• A man in his 30s was charged in connection with the death of a 26-year-old Latvian national on Saturday.
• Gardaí are awaiting the post-mortem of a 65-year-old Offaly man who sustained serious head injuries. [RTÉ]
• It was revealed that a Catholic group taped students together with sticky tape during a talk about chastity.
• A group calling themselves ‘the IRA‘ claimed responsibility for suspicious devices sent to British army recruitment centres.
• One developer told the Anglo trial he was told the bank would be “gone in a week” if he took a loan to buy shares.
• A report found massive variations in the mortality rates at Irish hospitals for heart attack patients.
• Four women shared their stories of facing eviction and homelessness.
• We found out where 28 ministers will be spending their St Patrick’s Day.

WORLD

Police stand around the aircraft after passengers were evacuated from a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Plane on the airport in Geneva (Image: Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP).

#HIJACKING: No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled this morning when a co-pilot hijacked his own plane because it happened outside of business hours, the country’s airforce said. [AFP]

#NORTH KOREA: The UN said North Korea’s leaders should be brought before an international court for a litany of crimes against humanity, including exterminating, starving and enslaving its population. [AFP]

#UNITED KINGDOM: Three former bankers were charged in connection with lending rate fixing. [Associated Press]

#PAKISTAN: A couple was stoned to death for having an affair – just two of hundreds killed around the country each year in the name of defending family honour. [AFP]

#SOUTH KOREA: Ten people are said to be dead, and dozens trapped in South Korea building collapse.

INNOVATION

• Facebook can predict when you’re going to fall in love. [Business Insider]
• Passwords may be a thing of the past. Google has invested in a security system that uses soundwaves to verify a user’s identity.
• Scientists in Britain have developed genetically modified potatoes that can resist blight. [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

This great strip from xkcd shows the frequency of a number of different events. Out favourites include ‘Someone buys a vibrator’, ‘Someone’s pet cat kills a mockingbird’ and ‘A Sagittarius named Amelia drinks a soda’.

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