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

IRELAND

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• Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan will not receive a criminal conviction arising from offences committed at Shannon Airport in November 2014, a court has ruled.
• Hospital apologises after young man settles case against HSE and doctor who delivered him for €4.1 million.
• Labour has warned of the possibility of “conservative” Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil coalition as one minister admitted that every one of the party’s TDs is fighting for their political lives.
• Staff at the 999 call service in Navan are set to strike tomorrow in pursuit of claims against the service’s operators.
• A 13-year-old student has been awarded damages after being served detergent with chips instead of vinegar at a New Year’s Eve family dinner in a Dublin hotel.
• It’s two years since Bunclody was named as the most economically depressed town. We paid a visit, to see if locals were feeling the recovery.
• Even more batches of Mars chocolate bars and Celebrations are being recalled. 
• The iconic Gresham Hotel has come on the market for a cool €80 million.

INTERNATIONAL

#ENGLAND: Two women have been arrested after a nine-week-old baby was taken from his home.

#EGYPTIAN: A man is to stand trial for claiming in a television interview that adultery is common among married women.

#BBC: Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to the Irish producer who he allegedly hit during an altercation that led to his dismissal from the BBC.

INNOVATION

• A new kind of WiFi could stop it from draining your phone’s battery.
• Watch Google’s robot be bullied and terrorised by its creators.

PARTING SHOT

This police dog works way harder than all of you combined and he has an Instagram account to prove it.