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

IRELAND

Bill Clinton, pictured at a ceremony conferring him with an honorary doctorate at DCU this afternoon Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The OCI has broken clear of its ticketing deal with vendor THG.
• Cork City Council staff described the debris from Storm Ophelia as leaving the city looking like a ‘war zone’.
• Schools will reopen tomorrow in the wake of Ophelia.
• Meanwhile, 169,000 people remain without power in the aftermath of the massive storm.
• Bill Clinton was given an honorary doctorate by DCU.
• The senior ladies football and camogie finals have been made protected sporting events.
• The Department of Finance shut down Donald Trump’s claims that Ireland is dropping its corporate tax rate.
• Ireland was drawn with Denmark  for the 2018 World Cup play-off.
• It emerged that 23 people lost their homes because of the tracker mortgage scandal.
• We don’t have to worry about Storm Brian. Yet.
• It could become a criminal offence to recklessly endanger emergency workers during a status red weather alert.
• Gardaí are investigating the theft of the Mother and Child statue from Finglas in Dublin.

WORLD

Another day, another Trump controversy SIPA USA / PA Images SIPA USA / PA Images / PA Images

#TRUMP: The US president garnered criticism after falsely claiming that Barack Obama didn’t call grieving military families.

#MALTA: An investigative journalist was killed by a car bomb.

#RAQQA: US-backed forces have driven the Islamic State out of its former ‘capital’.

PARTING SHOT

Storm Ophelia has been and gone, but this letter from a Cork schoolgirl to Met Éireann’s Joanna Donnelly will last forever:

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