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

IRELAND

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• Fine Gael have confirmed they’ve confidence in Nóirín O’Sullivan, while Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin have taken the opposite stance.
• Frances Fitzgerald claims she only found out about scale of the garda traffic scandal after senior officers held a press conference last week.
• The Medical Bureau of Road Safety (MBRS) has said his organisation alerted gardaí on two separate occasions to discrepancies in breath test numbers before action was taken.
• Two inmates in Mountjoy Prison have been injured in an attack this morning.
• Those who “willfully” waste water will face prosecution under proposed new plans.
• London will “consider all options” after Easter if talks to reestablish power-sharing fail.
• 34 infrastructure projects across 15 local authorities have been given the green light by the government.
• Gardaí are seeking the public’s assistance in tracing the whereabouts of Jasmine Scally who is missing from Kildare.
• Michael Healy-Rae was left in a state of shock after a choking fit turned his hands and lips purple and left him requiring emergency treatment.
• Dublin could get new eight-storey hotel as vacant “scourge” set to be demolished.
• Irish adults will be able to renew their passports online from Thursday.
• An investigation is underway after ‘human waste’ was found in cans at a Coca-Cola plant in Antrim

INTERNATIONAL 

#DESTRUCTIVE GUSTS: A ‘monster’ cyclone is battering Australia with 270km/h gusts.

#ON TOPIC: The UK Daily Mail has come under fire this morning for running a ‘moronic’ front page focusing on the legs of Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May.

#USA USA USA: Oklahoma residents armed with machine guns are going to be allowed hunt pigs from helicopters.

PARTING SHOT 

Relax and watch the heartwarming moment a Wexford family was reunited with their stolen dog after six months. [DailyEdge]
https://www.facebook.com/dspca/videos/10154499122860678/