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IRELAND

Downpours of rain in Dublin City Centre as days of mixed bad weather are forecast in the lead up to St Patrick’s Day Sasko Lazarov Sasko Lazarov

• A woman and her her partner were handed lengthy prison sentences for the rape and abuse of her five-year-old daughter and three-and-half year-old son.
• The Department of Finance confirmed it is “monitoring developments” regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. 
• The Garda union leader said it was “absolutely” possible mid-ranking gardaí may take industrial action as a row over roster changes deepens. 
• A woman told a court that she thought she was about to die as she was beaten in a sexual assault as she walked her dog in a north Cork park. 
• Bill Clinton and Gerry Adams are set to share a stage at a 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement event in New York.
• A weather warning for snow and ice is in place as Met Éireann warned that wintry showers will lead to icy conditions in some areas from tonight. 
• A jury begun their deliberations in the trial of a man charged with murdering Garda Colm Horkan by shooting him eleven times with the garda’s own gun.
• A murder trial heard how a man searching for a missing cat found the dismembered body of a man in the garden of a house.
• The HSE is to launch a survey to measure how prevalent long Covid is in Ireland. 
• The Roscommon eviction trial heard that a group of men who rode in convoy to carry out the eviction at a farm was “like something out of the wild west”.

 INTERNATIONAL

Emergency personnel at the scene of the explosion in Swansea, Wales (PA)

#GARY LINEKER: The BBC presenter confirmed that he will return to Match of the Day, after an impartiality row with the BBC saw him “step back” just a few days ago.  

#WALES A man has died and three people have been taken to hospital after a suspected gas explosion in Swansea, according to local police. 

#OSCARS COUNTDOWN: It was definitely a mixed ceremony for Irish Oscar hopefuls but it was still an exciting night, and an important one for Hollywood. Aoife Barry reports from Tinseltown. 

PARTING SHOT

During the 2018 referendum to repeal the Eighth Amendment, hundreds of heartfelt messages were left at a mural of Savita Halappanavar in Dublin.

They have now been preserved and will be accessible in the future after Dublin City Council’s Library and Archive published photographs of the messages on the Digital Repository of Ireland.

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