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

IRELAND

Freddy Gosnell (2) as the Christmas lights are switched on on Maylor Street in Cork. Jim Coughlan Jim Coughlan

• Garda appealed for witnesses after a 25-year-old woman died in a single-vehicle crash in Co Waterford.
• A man went on trial accused of kidnapping and raping his partner after she obtained a barring order against him.
• A review of the plan to regenerate Limerick found the work being carried out in four areas across the city is having a positive impact on communities.
• The High Court approved a €4 million settlement in favour of a 27-year-old brain damaged woman who had brought a medical negligence action against the HSE.
• The collection of data around domestic and sexual violence in Ireland is at “crisis point”, according to the National Women’s Council of Ireland.
• In its submission to the Citizens’ Assembly, the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference said some unborn babies are “spoken of as if they were as good as dead”.
• The vice president of St Vincent de Paul branded the robbery and ransacking of a Dublin-based charity shop as “vile”.
• Bob Dylan is set to play a Dublin gig next summer.

WORLD

Queen Elizabeth II and members of the British Royal family at the annual reception for members of the Diplomatic Corps at Buckingham Palace, London. Dominic Lipinski PA Wire / PA Images Dominic Lipinski PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#US: President Obama ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election season cyberattacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign.

#UK: Police have identified 83 potential suspects in the sex abuse scandal that has rocked English football and believe 98 clubs from all levels have been ‘impacted’, the National Police Chiefs Council said.

#SOUTH KOREA: Lawmakers passed an impeachment motion against President Park Geun-Hye, stripping away her sweeping executive powers over a corruption scandal.

INNOVATION

• Irish scientists mixed silly putty with graphene to create ultra-sensitive health sensors.
• Text messages are on the way out – but we’re eating up huge amounts of data.

PARTING SHOT

The Herald Tribune has undertaken an investigation examining racial bias in sentencing in Florida, and how black people regularly get longer sentences than white people for committing the same crime.

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