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

IRISH

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• A woman died after being stabbed at her home in Dublin.
• Graham Dwyer‘s murder trial will begin on Thursday.
• It was revealed that water for almost a million people is at risk of contamination.
• A new board structure was put in place for Irish Water.
• Irishman Barry Lyttle was granted permission to move closer to his brother’s hospital in Australia.
• A yellow snow (behave) warning was issued.
• Irish fathers look set to benefit from two weeks paid paternity leave.
• There are fears numbers of suicides may have risen over the Christmas period.
• A Fine Gael councillor apologised for comparing anti-Page 3 campaigners to Nazis.
• The Acorn Life Group is creating 125 new jobs nationwide.
• Ryanair was fined for bad customer service.
• An Irishman got stuck in an air vent at an Australian nightclub.

WORLD

People take photographs on their smartphones of a rainbow, measuring 30 metres wide by 15 metres high, projected onto water in Trafalgar Square, London. Matt Alexander Matt Alexander

#NO-GO: The city of Paris is going to sue Fox News over remarks made about ‘no-go zones’ in the city.

#MISSOURI: A five-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed his nine-month-old baby brother after finding a gun in his house.

#JAPAN: Islamic State militants threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless a $200 million ransom is paid.

#STOP IT: Pope Francis said good Catholics no longer have to breed “like rabbits”, though he still isn’t encouraging use of contraception.

#YEMEN: Rebels have seized the president’s palace and violence has escalated.

INNOVATION

• A new app allows you to have conversions with an ‘invisible’ boyfriend or girlfriend.  [Business Insider]
• If you use one of these passwords, you’re in serious trouble.

PARTING SHOT

There’s been a lot of talk about Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech but this, according to Vox, is what he would say if he was being brutally honest.