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Things we learned, loved and shared today…

The scene above Glenarm in County Antrim, the hill town hamlet which has been cut off for thee days due to snow drifts and no electricity. Pic: Paul Faith/PA Wire

HERE ARE THE things you need to know as we round off the day in three easy steps.

THINGS WE LEARNED

  • Eurozone finance minsiters are meeting in Brussels this evening in a bid to strike a deal that will secure a bailout out for troubled Cyprus. Our own finance minister says it will be a long night which gives you time to read our 25-point crash course in the Cypriot crisis.
  • A junior minister has admitted that the government made a “mess” of communicating the exemptions from the local property tax. Seán Sherlock also appeared to take a swipe at Environment Minister Phil Hogan.
  • A youth charity funded by the HSE, SpunOut, has defended itself in the wake of criticism from a Fine Gael TD over its advice to teenagers that they could “spice up” their love lives by having a threesome.
  • A man shot at an empty car in a north Dublin housing estate last night in an incident which gardaí are investigating.
  • There have been over 1,000 submissions to the Constitutional Convention ahead of next month’s discussions about introducing same-sex marriage in Ireland.
  • Mystery continues to surround the death of the Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky but police have ruled-out any radiation poisoning following an examination of the house where the fierce Vladimir Putin critic was found dead yesterday.

THINGS WE LOVED

Pic: Joe Giddens/PA Wire/Press Association Images

THINGS WE SHARED

  • This video of London Mayor Boris Johnson being subjected to some uncomfortable questioning from the BBC’s Eddie Mair has lots of people talking on Twitter.
  • Meet the man who has the best job in the world or Texas Monthly’s first barbecue editor as he’s more officially known.
  • Finally, the Anti-Defamation League has produced this very smart video imagining what the world might be like had Martin Luther King, Anne Frank and others lived longer:

YouTube: ADLNational

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