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

IRELAND

Moya Connelly (94), who completed the Junior Cert at aged 92, with the Specsavers Grandparent of the Year Award and her granddaughter Hannah Connelly (18).

• Enda Kenny has told Sky News that it would be ‘impossible’ for Brexit to happen within two years.
• Gardaí are investigating whether a man found dead in Buncrana may have fallen asleep in freezing conditions.
• The sister of a Cork teenager who died after taking N-Bomb has criticised the sentences handed down to his drug suppliers.
• Public pay chairman Kevin Duffy has retracted comments in which he likened garda strikes to “mutiny”.
• A new EU-wide survey has indicated 21% of Irish people believe having sex without consent is justified in certain situations.
• A law lecturer who took a ferry to Ireland after a child pornography conviction has lost a legal challenge.
• Alcohol campaigners have criticised €1 ‘Black Friday’ drink deals.
• Temperatures will drop to as low as low as minus six degrees overnight.
• Over €60,000 in cash and a luxury car was seized by gardaí targeting organised crime gangs.

WORLD

An actress dressed as Imelda Marcos, the wife of Philippine dictator Ferdinand, talks beside an effigy of her husband at a rally in Manila. Aaron Favila Aaron Favila

#TOP JOB: US investor Wilbur Ross, best known here for his €500 million involvement with Bank of Ireland, is expected to land a key role in Donald Trump’s new cabinet.

#ATTACK: French police have arrested a former soldier after the killing of a female worker at a retirement home for Christian missionaries.

#GRINDR KILLER: Stephen Port will spend the rest of his life in prison in the UK for the murder of four men.

INNOVATION

• Stripe, the online payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison, is now estimated to be worth over $9 billion.
• It’s ‘Black Friday’, but what does that mean for online retailers?

PARTING SHOT

Living in London as an Irishman. Same language, but very very different.

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