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

IRELAND

Customers enjoying a pint in Jack Nealon's pub on Capel Street in Dublin. It is shutting its doors after 10 years in business. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Whistleblower Superintendent David Taylor was sent a letter informing him an internal disciplinary investigation into his case is still underway.
• Minister John Halligan branded Donald Trump a sexual predator as he attacked Enda Kenny’s refusal to cancel the St Patrick’s Day Visit.
• A farmer suffered serious head injuries after he was attacked by one of his livestock in Roscommon.
• An Irish teenager who raised €600k for her cancer treatment has started her chemotherapy in Texas.
• Over 1,000 people turned out in Limerick to protest against a new incinerator.
• A judge in Kildare was shocked when a man with 431 previous convictions came before his court.
• Gardaí have renewed their appeal for information on a man who has been missing for a month.

INTERNATIONAL

Dogs and their owners arriving for the third day of Crufts 2017 dog show at the NEC in Birmingham Katja Ogrin / EMPICS Entertainment Katja Ogrin / EMPICS Entertainment / EMPICS Entertainment

#USA: A man was arrested after he scaled a wall and entered the grounds of the White House while Trump was inside.

#GERMANY: Police closed a shopping centre in the city of Essen after receiving ‘concrete’ information that a terror attack was going to happen.

#SICILY : A homeless man was burned alive by a man who doused him in flammable liquid and set him alight.

#SYRIA: Bomb attacks in the Syrian capital Damascus killed 44 people. 

PARTING SHOT

Irish people have an inexplicable affinity with country music so it’s no surprise that a three day music extravaganza filled the 3Arena in Dublin. Everything was going swimmingly until US singer Zac Brown took the stage. As he performed his first song, a massive Union Jack was emblazoned across a big screen behind the singer. You can see the fail in all its glory here.