March 20: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds

Committee to recommend introducing of assisted dying
The Special Oireachtas Joint Committee on Assisted Dying is set to publish its final report after months of hearing from both national and international experts. RTÉ News understands that it will recommend that the Government legislates to introduce assisted dying in the State. This was a majority decision in which nine committee members voted in favour, three vote against, one abstained and one was not present.
RTÉ

‘A slap in the face’: Mother and baby home survivors can’t apply for redress without photo ID
Survivors of mother and baby institutions will be unable to apply for redress if they don’t have photographic identification. The Government’s long-awaited redress scheme finally opens for applications today. However, survivors can’t apply unless they provide photographic ID. Applications by older survivors are due to be prioritised to ensure they will receive financial redress as quickly as possible. However, many elderly survivors do not have a passport, driving licence or Public Service Card (PSC).
The Journal

School that sacked Enoch Burke increases security over ‘fraudulent activity’ in area
The Westmeath school that employed Enoch Burke until his dismissal has increased security at its premises in response to alleged “fraudulent ­activity in the local area”. Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham has consulted with gardaí on the matter and employed a security company, with security personnel now positioned at the school gates. It is understood the security concern has arisen over work done within the school grounds.
Independent.ie

Trump’s image and vanity suffer blow as civil fraud case puts him in a $464m bond bind
I don’t have the money: it’s the one admission that represents a deep wound to Donald Trump’s vanity and the image he has perpetuated over decades in American public life as the figurehead of unfathomable wealth. But his latest legal complication leaves him in just that squeeze. As it stands, he has less than a week to honour the $464 million (€426 million) penalty he was ordered to pay to the state of New York in a civil fraud case last month. On Monday, his lawyers conceded in a court filing that “ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in the judgment’s full amount is a practical impossibility”.
The Irish Times

Armed gardaí raid homes in Cobh after man dies following Samurai sword attack
Armed gardaí raided homes in Cobh, Co Cork, on Tuesday following the death of a man who was critically injured in a sword attack in the town four days ago. Members of the Armed Support Unit swooped on a house in the Springfield Park area of the town just hours after the victim of last Friday’s vicious assault died in Cork University Hospital (CUH). The victim has been named locally as Ian Baitson, 32, a young father and chef who lived in the town.
The Irish Examiner

Famine looms in Sudan as civil war survivors tell of killings and rapes
Civilians caught up in Sudan’s civil war have given graphic accounts to the BBC of rape, ethnic violence and street executions. Our journalists have managed to make it to the front line of the fighting close to the capital, Khartoum. Top UN officials have said the conflict has plunged the country into “one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history” and could trigger the world’s largest hunger crisis. There are also fears that in Darfur, in the west of the country, a repeat of what the US called genocide 20 years ago may be beginning to unfold.
BBC News

Kensington Palace issues statement over Kate clinic prying claims – as Trump has warning for Harry
A probe has been launched into reports that staff at the London Clinic attempted to view the Princess of Wales’s private medical records.
Sky News

Young people becoming less happy than older generations, research shows
Young people are becoming less happy than older generations as they suffer “the equivalent of a midlife crisis”, global research has revealed as America’s top doctor warned that “young people are really struggling”. Dr Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, said allowing children to use social media was like giving them medicine that is not proven to be safe. He said the failure of governments to better regulate social media in recent years was “insane”.
The Guardian

Today’s forecast
Cloud and rain will gradually clear away to the southeast through this morning as dry and sunny weather extends from the northwest. A largely dry afternoon and evening with plenty of spring sunshine. Highest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees with a light to moderate northerly wind. It will become cloudy countrywide early tonight and outbreaks of rain or drizzle will develop in parts of Connacht and Ulster overnight. Lowest temperatures of 2 to 6 degrees with light and variable winds becoming southwesterly and increasing moderate to fresh, occasionally strong in the west and northwest.
Met Éireann