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

IRELAND

A fallen tree branch on Westmoreland Street, Dublin after Storm Callum.

• Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has written to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar urging him to say he won’t call an election. 
• Seventy percent of voters want Michael D Higgins to be reelected president, according to a Red C poll carried out on behalf of Paddy Power. 
• Around 10,000 customers remain without power today as a result of Storm Callum. 
• Minister for Health Simon Harris has said Micheál Martin’s behaviour towards the former Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald was “disgraceful conduct” and that he wants him to apologise.
• Housing charity Threshold says it has received reports of landlord and agencies asking people fore viewing fees. 
• A search has been launched for a missing Cork mother Susan Greene and her daughter Sinetta.  
• The number of people on hospital waiting lists reached over half a million last month. 
• A recruitment drive to fill 1,000 permanent roles at Ireland’s first Center Parcs holiday resort has kicked off. 

INTERNATIONAL 

Princess Eugenie and her new husband Jack Brooksbank outside St George's Chapel. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

• The world’s longest flight arrived in Newark, USA today after travelling 17 hours 25 minutes from Singapore.
• Pope Francis accepted the resignation of US cardinal Donald Wuerl who was criticised over his handling of sexual abuse claims. 
• The body of an indigenous woman was recovered following a crocodile attack in a remote part of the country’s north. 
• Queen Elizabeth’s granddaughter Princess Eugenie married a commoner today at a Windsor Castle wedding. 
• Saudi Arabia today welcomed a joint probe into missing US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 

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