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IRELAND

Frances Fitzgerald at the Fine gael Ard Fheis in 1999. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

• Frances Fitzgerald resigned as Tánaiste in order to avoid a snap general election
• Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan apologised to the Dáil for giving “inaccurate” information which he accepted from his department “in good faith”
• A man who was believed to have been sleeping rough in south Dublin has died
• Ava Barry will be home for Christmas, after a licence was secured to allow cannabis to be used to treat the seven-year-old’s rare form of epilepsy
• Gardaí in the Dublin Metropolitan Region have been told that overtime is cancelled for the rest of 2017 due to a budget overrun
• A woman who alleges she was attacked by a man she met on Tinder did not tell gardaí about eight minutes spent with him before the alleged attack, a court heard
• The Central Bank has decided not to change mortgage rules for first-time buyers.

WORLD

Pope Francis meets Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Andrew Medichini via PA Images Andrew Medichini via PA Images

#NUCLEAR THREAT: North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, South Korean military officials said, the first such launch in two months.

#PERSECUTION: Pope Francis held talks with Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi today, but stopped short of using the word “Rohingya” during a keynote address.

#ENGAGED: Prince Harry and his American fiancée Meghan Markle will marry at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in May next year.

PARTING SHOT

We’re all at least a little bit relieved that the political controversy around the whistleblower email has subsided somewhat today, but no one is more relieved than Frances Fitzgerald.

No, not the former Tánaiste and Business Minister, a different Frances Fitz, who has been bombarded with Twitter mentions as the controversy gathered momentum over the past few days.

“Please let this shitshow end,” she wrote on Twitter, saying she was tired of being mistaken for a 67-year-old woman.

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Even more interesting, were the people who replied to the tweet saying they understood her pain – among them a Stephen Donnelly, a Niall Horan, and a Micheál Mac Donncha.

Comments are closed as one of the stories relates to an ongoing court case.

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