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

IRELAND

Dublin man Stephen Heary captured a serene Howth Head from 600 feet. Stephen Heary Stephen Heary

• Serial abuser Tony Walsh, also known as the ‘singing priest’, was sentenced to one year in prison for the sexual assault of a child in the 1970s. 
• The makers of Bulmers cider are closing its plant in Tipperary, resulting in job losses.
• Parents of children with cancer were angered at the Irish Cancer Society‘s decision to close its financial support group.
• David Drumm had his bail rejected.
• Moore Street activists ended their protest.
• Convicted child killer Robert Black died in prison.
• The body of Cork man Thomas Rawley, missing since before Christmas, was recovered from the River Lee.
• A young man was jailed for three years after pretending to be a girl online so he could have sex with a 15 year old.
• Lecturers at Ireland’s institutes of technology are going on strike.
• Golf legend Christy O’Connor Jnr was laid to rest in his native Galway.

WORLD 

Pupils of Navy cadet classes stand in the snow in St.Petersburg, Russia. Associated Press Associated Press

#CHINA: Everybody’s worried about it.

#GERMANY More than 200 people were arrested in Leipzig during a xenophobic march. Protesters held anti-refugee signs, set cars on fire and smashed windows.

#IRAQ A coalition airstrike destroyed an Isis bank. [BBC News]

#TURKEY Ten people were killed and 15 wounded in a suspected terrorist attack in a tourist hub of Istanbul.

#SYRIA Hundreds of people need to be taken away from the besieged town of Madaya for medical care, the UN says. [Sky News]

#UNITED STATES Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch are getting married. So we looked at why the model’s marriage to Mick Jagger wasn’t really a marriage after all.

INNOVATION

• It looks like something predicted by Einstein but never observed has finally been found. [New Scientist]
• Google has launched this pretty nifty virtual tour of 1916 Dublin. It comes with its very own Colin Farrell, too. 
• Here’s how your iPhone won’t blind you at night anymore.
  

PARTING SHOT

This train station will be closed once its only commuter finishes school.
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