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

Leo Varadkar, meets newly married couple Owen and Arlene McClusker from Omagh during day two of the Fine Gael National Conference in the Slieve Russell Hotel in Ballyconnell, County Cavan. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• Leo Varadkar insisted homelessness was low by international standards
• The Fine Gael convention heard from a woman who had a crisis pregnancy
• A woman told how she was duped into sharing a room with her male landlord
• Appeals continued to help find a missing Dublin mother
• A woman was attacked in Dublin
• Ireland honoured its war dead
• Simon Coveney hit out at The Sun newspaper
• An Irish woman was reported missing in France

INTERNATIONAL

A poppy placed onto the Memorial Arboretum at the Armistice Day service at the War Memorial Arboretum, in Staffordshire. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#ELECTION MEDDLING: Donald Trump said he believes Vladimir Putin’s assurances that Russia didn’t interfere with the US election.

#CATALONIA: Thousands marched to demand the release of Catalan independence leaders.

PARTING SHOT

Conor Smith went out for in his kayak around Hag’s Head and the Cliffs of Moher and the footage is stunning.

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