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IRELAND

President Michael D Higgins accepts the inaugural TK Whitaker Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Life at the 42nd annual Business & Finance Awards alongside award winners Bob Geldof and Leicester City CEO Susan Whelan. Conor McCabe Photography Ltd Conor McCabe Photography Ltd

• The bodies of an Irish woman and her seven-year-old son were found in London
• A man who made bomb threats during Queen Elizabeth‘s visit in 2011 was jailed
• Nurses voted in favour of industrial action
• Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil reached a deal on the government’s rent plan
• Two Sinn Féin TDs outlined the death threats they have received in recent days
• The family of a man who died after disturbing a Traveller gang burgling his home hit out at the sentences imposed on two members 
• The Standards Commission found that Fianna Fáil Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill breached ethics laws
• The founder of Budget Travel, Gillian Bowler, died aged 64

INTERNATIONAL

Two Ryeland sheep on Court Farm wear Christmas jumpers, as Cardigan in Wales officially changes its name to Jumper, to support Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day tomorrow. Empics Entertainment / PA Empics Entertainment / PA / PA

#ALEPPO: Hundreds of civilians and rebels have left Aleppo this afternoon under an evacuation deal.

#FOOD FIGHT: Donald Trump got in a Twitter spat with Vanity Fair magazine over their review of the restaurant bearing his name.

#PUTIN: NBC News claimed that US intelligence agencies now believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin was personally involved in hacking during the American election campaign.

PARTING SHOT

What country do you drink like? BBC has made a drinking nationality calculator. This writer? I drink like somebody from Kuwait. (I don’t drink.)

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