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

IRELAND

Transport Minister Shane Ross addressed the media over the ongoing Bus Éireann controversy. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Strikes loom at Bus Éireann as the semi-state company announced wage cuts across the board
• Three men were remanded in custody charged in relation to a huge guns find in Dublin.
• Schoolkids had a narrow escape after a plank of wood from a passing van went through the windscreen of their school bus.
• Man with nearly 500 convictions sentenced to 18 months for killing teenager in crash
• Gardaí seized €200,000 worth of cannabis in a Kerry raid
• SuperValu is in hot water with potato suppliers after the chain offered free spuds and carrots when buying a round roast 
• Nearly five million journeys were made on city bike schemes in 2016
• Funding has been approved for 83 new modular housing units in Dublin

INTERNATIONAL 

A girl recites prayers while lighting incense in front of an image of Buddha as part of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year Bullit Marquez / PA Bullit Marquez / PA / PA

#US: Trump and May met at the White House and discussed their ‘special relationship’

#FRANCE: Hamsters are turning into cannibals and are eating their young.

#UK: An English football fan was caught on camera pushing a Polish man onto electrified tube tracks

#RUSSIA: Their lower house has softened punishments for domestic abuse

PARTING SHOT 

International relations are a tricky thing at the best of times and President Trump, like all world leaders, may ask for a refresher on certain aspects of diplomatic policy from time to time.

Here’s a two-minute video explainer on the US’s often-fraught relationship with China which even The Donald could do with watching.