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

IRELAND

Taoiseach Enda Kenny, pictured at the British Irish Council meeting in London Dominic Lipinski / PA Archive/PA Images Dominic Lipinski / PA Archive/PA Images / PA Archive/PA Images

• A man has been arrested after €700,000 of cocaine was found in a car in Dublin 
• The Taoiseach has said that he will call a constitutional convention on abortion if re-elected
• A man has died after falling from a cherrypicker at a Bus Éireann garage in Cork
• The weekend’s miserable weather is set to continue, with a status orange wind warning in place for parts of the country tomorrow
• A car used in an attempted shooting  at PSNI officers last week was stolen in Co Meath
• A Dublin city centre street was closed for some hours after a fire broke out above a Japanese restaurant
• Irish tourists are anxious about travelling to Paris and Brussels in the wake of the recent Paris terror attacks

WORLD

#RUSSIA: Vladimir Putin has put in place economic sanctions against Turkey as the fallout from the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkish forces last week continues

#ENGLAND: An 11-year-old girl has delivered her baby sister after her mother’s waters broke suddenly

#US: The suspect in a mass shooting at a planned parenthood clinic in Colorado last night has been named as Robert Lewis Dear

#MALI: Three people, including two UN peacekeepers, have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants

INNOVATION

• Your slick new Christmas devices could provide a bonanza for hackers (TheJournal.ie)
• A Japanese chef has turned a Big Mac and fries into sushi. Appetising… (Geek.com)

PARTING SHOT

Anonymous mechanics left this note for a person who brought their car in for its MOT (the UK equivalent of the NCT) this week. Apparently the car still passed. But maybe it shouldn’t have.

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