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

IRELAND

Thousands of people watched Christmas lights being turned on on Dublin's Grafton Street this evening. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• An investigation is underway following the discovery of a woman’s body at a house in Westmeath.
• The Irish consumer watchdog has launched a formal probe into understated carbon dioxide emissions in Volkswagen cars.
• A male cyclist was fatally injured after colliding with a car on a Kerry road this morning.
• A group representing republican prisoners has claimed that inmates at Portlaoise Prison are living in squalid conditions without adequate medical care.
• A plan to allow red deer from Kerry to wander freely in the Phoenix Park has been met with criticism.

INTERNATIONAL

Flowers and tributes are left close to La Casa Nostra pizzeria in Paris, one of several venues targeted in a string of attacks on Friday night. Steve Parsons / PA Wire/Press Association Images Steve Parsons / PA Wire/Press Association Images / PA Wire/Press Association Images

#FRANCE ATTACKS: As France continues to reel from the deadly attacks of Friday night, more information has emerged about the victims, as well as those responsible for the string of shootings and explosions.

#MANHUNT: French police released a photo of an on-the-run suspect thought to have rented the car used by the Bataclan gunmen.

#IRAQ: Kurdish forces in Sinjar said they had uncovered mass graves containing the remains of 78 women believed to have been killed by the Islamic State group.

INNOVATION

• After facing questions about why the social network hasn’t activated its “safety check” feature for bombings in Beirut and other places, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the feature would be available in “more human disasters going forward as well”.
• Scientists have developed a new wearable bionic suit that allows people with motor disabilities to stand and walk again. [NY Daily News]

PARTING SHOT

How do Irish medical workers manage to cope with death on a daily basis? The latest report in our ‘Last Rites’ series is well worth reading.

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