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

IRELAND

The mother of Paul Quinn delivers a speech at Stormont. PA PA

• A number of Irish passengers are confirmed to be on a cruise ship in Japan which has over 450 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
• A 60-YEAR-OLD Irish woman who was born in a mother-and-baby home has taken a case to the UN’s Committee Against Torture arguing that the Irish state was “complicit in her arbitrary detention and mistreatment”.
• TD Alan Kelly is to announce his candidacy as Labour Party leader tomorrow, the Labour Press office has confirmed.
• Four people have been charged under immigration legislation and several others arrested or questioned after the Garda National Immigration Bureau carried out searches at warehouses in Dublin and Meath.
• The mother of Paul Quinn, the Co Armagh man who was murdered 13 years ago, has described going through hell following a years-long search for justice.
• Two men have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a man in Lucan in Co Dublin last November.

WORLD

Buses carrying US passengers off the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship. 平田潤 平田潤

#CORONAVIRUS Armed robbers who stole hundreds of toilet rolls were being hunted by Hong Kong police today, in a city wracked by shortages caused by coronavirus panic-buying.

#BORIS British PM Boris Johnson has been urged to sack a new Downing Street adviser who once suggested enforcing the uptake of contraception to stop unplanned pregnancies “creating a permanent underclass”.

#GLITCH Technical issues at Heathrow airport prompted management to issue an apology after a number of flights were cancelled and other passengers experienced delays. 

Parting Shot

The leaders of parties across the political spectrum have been looking for a dance partner that could get them into government and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald is at the front of that line-up. 

But today, the Dublin TD found her groove with schoolkids when she joined them in their performance of cult classic, the macarena.