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

IRELAND

A groups at the Women's Little Christmas Ladies Lunch & Fashion Showcase in aid of Breakthrough Cancer Research, at the Cork International Hotel, Airport Business Park, Cork. Jim Coughlan Jim Coughlan

• Police in Belfast appealed for witnesses after an attempted armed robbery in which a man threatened to throw acid over a shop worker. 
• Trinity College said it was “deeply saddened” by the loss of one its students who died after falling from a cliff in Co Clare on Friday.
• A US-backed group said that it had captured an Irish citizen fighting for Islamic State in Syria. 
• Police in Omagh were investigating after thieves attempted to steal an ATM in Co Tyrone in the early hours of this morning.
• Gardaí said that three men had been arrested after a large amount of cannabis was seized in Co Mayo yesterday. 
• An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar began a week-long visit to Mali and Ethiopia, where he will meet members of the Irish Defence Forces, Irish NGOs and visit a UNHCR refugee camp. 
• Fianna Fáil called on the government to speed up the installation of CCTV cameras to help local communities combat crime. 

WORLD 

Carlow-born Padraig Amond celebrates scoring his side's second goal of the game during the Emirates FA Cup, third round match at Rodney Parade, Newport, where they won a major upset over Leicester City. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#KILLED: US president Donald Trump confirmed that the US military killed one of the architects of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole that left 17 American servicemen dead.

#POLAND: Polish officials said that they had shut down 13 escape rooms for safety flaws after five teenage girls were killed in a fire on Friday.

#BREXIT: Theresa May said MPs who don’t back her Brexit deal risk damaging democracy.

#UNITED STATES: US president Donald Trump said that talks aimed at ending a partial US government shutdown which entered its third week yesterday made little progress.

PARTING SHOT

Doughnuts have taken over Dublin. But before the Krispy Kremes craze and Aungier Danger, a simple kiosk has offered lovely sugared doughnuts for over 30 years, and its showing no sign of slowing down.

(Video by Nicky Ryan)

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