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

IRISH

Paul McErlane Paul McErlane

• Michelle O’Neill has been named as the new leader of Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland.
• An eight-year-old boy has passed away in hospital nearly two weeks after being involved in a car crash.
• Two Aer Lingus staff are among three people arrested at Dublin Airport in connection with alleged smuggling of illegal immigrants through Dublin Airport.
• Former Anglo Irish Bank executive Willie McAteer will not serve any extra time in prison for receiving a fraudulent loan in order to keep the bank from failing.
• A group of credit unions says it wants to force “real competition” in the mortgage market and estimates that there is about €400 million available to lend.
• Gardaí have launched a fresh witness appeal into the murder of Mark Burke whose partial remains were found at a Dublin recycling plant two years ago.
• A Cork TD is suggesting that people who hold free travel passes should pay an annual €6 charge to fill the Bus Éireann deficit.
• The Mater Hospital is warning of very long waiting times as 90 patients are being processed in the emergency department today.

INTERNATIONAL 

White House press secretary Sean Spicer PM PM

#US: President Donald Trump has signed a memo withdrawing the US from the controversial trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).

#NUMBERS: Meanwhile, White House press secretary Sean Spicer has defended his comments that Trump’s inauguration was the most watched in history.

#MURDER: Iceland is in mourning after a young woman missing for eight days was found dead on a beach, in a rare crime that gripped the nation.

#PLUNDERED: An exiled Gambia leader stole millions of dollars in his final weeks in power leaving state coffers “empty”.

PARTING SHOT 

This ‘Knife Angel’ sculpture has been created with 100,000 knives collected by 41 police forces across the country via knife amnesties and confiscations.