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

IRISH

A local woman wearing maximum protection against the weather, checking the water levels on the River Barrow. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• The country braced itself for more flooding.
• A Kilkenny bouncer was reported to gardaí after footage of him standing on a man’s head surfaced.
• A man was airlifted to hospital after waiting 25 minutes for an ambulance.
• Gardaí investigated a New Year’s stabbing in Dublin, and a shooting at a party in Kildare.
• Archbishop Eamon Martin said it’s insulting to parents who baptise their kids to say that people are only doing so to get them into a school.
• Lucinda Creighton said she doesn’t miss Fine Gael.
• A woman was arrested after a plane made an emergency landing in Shannon.
• Crowdfunding was launched to pay for a baby born here on a flight from the US to return home.
• Firefighters rescued a man from a house fire in Limerick.
• Here’s the latest from the 1985 State Papers.

INTERNATIONAL

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#INDIA: Five attackers and three security officers died in an attack on air force base. [AFP]

#IRAQ: The head of a group investigation Iraqi War abuses said British troops could face charges.

#ISRAEL: Police continued a manhunt for the suspect involved in yesterday’s shooting in Tel Aviv.

#SAUDI ARABIA: 47 people were executed, drawing angry condemnation.

#UNITED STATES: Donald Trump’s calls for a ban on Muslims appear in a recruitment video for Islamist militants.

INNOVATION

• There’s a new way of studying distant worlds. [BBC News]
• Elon Musk‘s reusable Faclon 9 rocket is ready to launch again. [Mashable]
• This is the surprising story of the first thing ever sold online.

PARTING SHOT

Here’s the 11 unsolved mysteries that still need answers in 2016. [Mashable]

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