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

IRELAND

Gardaí at the scene of the hostage situation in Ballyogan, south Dublin today. Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• A woman in her 30s escaped unharmed after she was taken hostage at a house in south Dublin today.
• A man in his 70s was pronounced dead, but was later revived, after a four-car crash in Walkinstown in Dublin.
• Footballer Anthony Stokes was fined €230,000 for headbutting an Elvis impersonator.
• Mandate and Tesco are going to meet for talks to try and solve the ongoing strike.
• Emergency services were called to a house fire and discovered a cannabis grow house in Carlow.
• Ex-Tánaiste and former attorney general Michael McDowell called for the Garda Commissioner to step aside.
• The government agreed the terms of reference for the Tribunal into the Maurice McCabe scandal – the Charleton Tribunal.
• Fine Gael hopefuls were lining up to challenge Enda Kenny for the leadership of the party.
• A number of businesses have come out in support of their staff staging a walkout for Strike4Repeal on 8 March.

INTERNATIONAL

Pablo Martinez Monsivais AP / Press Association Images Pablo Martinez Monsivais AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#MESSY: In an extraordinary press conference today, Donald Trump said he “inherited a mess” as US President, as the news emerged that he had given up the court appeal against the suspension of the travel ban.

#ASSASSINATION: A third arrest has been made in Malaysia over the assassination of the brother of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-Un.

#RIOTS: Paris endured its eleventh night of rioting over the alleged police rape of a young man in the city.

PARTING SHOT

Meet Rukuru, a baby rhino born in December, pictured here taking a mud bath at Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, England, with her mother Nyasa today.