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

IRELAND

Brendan O'Carroll and Dan Wall (9) from Arcklow at the Celebrity Ward Walk at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• A man’s body was found in a derelict premises in Nenagh after a fire broke out in disused pub.
• An Irish person was injured by a car driven into a crowd in Melbourne.
• Ryanair confirmed it will recognise the Impact trade union, while German pilots said they will go on strike.
• Well-known Cystic Fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley is recovering in a US hospital following a double lung transplant.
• Donald Trump’s golf course in Clare will be allowed build a “wall” off the coast of Doonbeg.
• Charlene Donovan, who allegedly fired a shotgun at a family, spraying an eight-month old baby, the child’s mother and a teenage boy with pellets, granted bail at Blanchardstown District Court. [The Irish Independent]
• Gardaí are investigating a robbery that saw two women robbed at gunpoint.
• A total of 34 patients were asked to go back to University Hospital Kerry for their scans to be reviewed.
• Traffic over Christmas is forecast to be “bumper-to-bumper”.

WORLD 

A citizen of Barcelona votes in a polling station in Barcelona. Xinhua News Agency / PA Images Xinhua News Agency / PA Images / PA Images

#AUSTRALIA: Police have said there is no evidence to suggest an incident in which a man ploughed a car into pedestrians in Melbourne was terrorism-related.

#CATALONIA: The region has taken to the polls to decide between pro-independence parties and those wanting to remain part of Spain.

#NORTH KOREA: A soldier in North Korea escaped to the South today across the heavily-guarded Demilitarised Zone that divides the peninsula, triggering gunfire on both sides of the tense border.

PARTING SHOT

Did you miss the Newgrange Winter Solstice this morning. Well, you can watch it all back here:

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