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

Johnny Ryan with his son Lester and wife Lilly

Irish

• Johnny Ryan, the father of Kilkenny hurling captain Lester Ryan, has died in a tragic farming accident. 
• The Government today announced the wording that will be voted on in the forthcoming same-sex marriage referendum.
• The former Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has lost his appeal against a ruling he breached data protection law. 
• Wondering what sort of money your local TD has been pulling in? RTÉ has released a fully searchable database on how much they’ve been making. 
• Allied Irish Banks Plc has confirmed that it has started to look for a new CEO, following David Duffy’s plans to step down. 
• The ECB’s Klaus Regling has told the banking inquiry property in Ireland had become a ‘national obsession’. 
• Relations between the two parties of Government have cooled since Simon Coveney’s comments about a potential Fianna Fáil/ Fine Gael coalition.  
• New figures from the Central Statistics Office today have shown a significant drop in Irish disposable income. 
• Charlie Haughey’s son, Sean, has spoken of how his family were initially “horrified” by RTÉ’s dramatisation of his father’s life. 
• Secondary school teachers are set to go on strike tomorrow- as a last minute appeal from the Taoiseach went unheeded. 
• The Dáil bar’s busiest day last year was the day the Water Services Bill was debated. 
• The Government has come in for criticism over the new structure of the Irish Water board. 
• A group representing estate agents has said that new Central Bank rules on buying property could seriously drive up rents. 

World

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#PARIS: The offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are still surrounded by tributes to those killed in the 7 January attack.

#ISRAEL: Twelve people were injured in a morning attack on a bus in Israel by an individual brandishing a knife. 

#SWITZERLAND: Today sees the world’s power elites coming together at Davos – but what is the event really about? 

#ECB: The European Central Bank is planning a programme of quantitative easing – find out how Katie Price fits into it all here. 

Innovation

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• Microsoft has announced its plans for ‘Windows 10′ – the latest update to its platform. The new operating system will be available as a free upgrade for the first year of release.
• Along with this, Microsoft are hoping that their new Spartan browser will be able to come out from under the tainted legacy of Internet Explorer. [Quartz.com] 

Parting shot

Ever thought that marijuana being a banned substance in sports was a bit strange? Well according to this Business Insider article it might improve the performance of some people.

Read: Father of Kilkenny hurling captain dies in tragic farm accident

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