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

IRELAND

Amy Fletcher (7) from Co Down eyes up a painted fox by her aunt Lorraine Fletcher at Art Fair 2016 at the RDS in Dublin. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• RTÉ received more than 1,300 complaints ahead of last night’s appearance on the Late Late Show by columnist Katie Hopkins.
• After 1,182 days in jail without trial, Ibrahim Halawa’s trial was adjourned for the 16th time.
• Business groups have been outlining their concerns over pay demands from public sector workers.
• Over 400 gardaí have been injured in the line of duty so far this year.
• Three busy children’s hospitals in Dublin have asked asked patients to use GPs this weekend because of unprecedented demand.
• A man is due in court this evening over an attempted murder.
• Ireland beat Austria 1-0 in Vienna putting the football team on top of its World Cup qualifying group.

WORLD

Protesters demonstrate on Fifth Avenue outside Trump Tower. Julie Jacobson / PA Images Julie Jacobson / PA Images / PA Images

#NOT MY PRESIDENT: Protests against the election of Donald Trump are continuing in the US with one man injured in a shooting at a Portland demonstration.

#ROLLBACK: Trump meanwhile has suggested that he may keep some elements of Obamacare but said he remains committed to repealing it.

#PAKISTAN: At least 43 have been killed and scores of others were injured when a bomb exploded at a Muslim shrine in southern Pakistan.

#STOP FUNDING HATE: Lego has said it will stop advertising in the Daily Mail newspaper.

#BLACK PETE: Dutch police have arrested about 100 protesters demonstrating against Black Pete, the jolly sidekick of Dutch Saint Nicholas accused of being a racist stereotype.

INNOVATION

• Mark Zuckerberg was among the millions of users accidentally declared dead on Facebook because of a glitch.
• How a porn star taught Paddy Power’s boss that having the craic in advertising doesn’t work everywhere.

PARTING SHOT

The world might have been plunged into a state of shock this week, but if there’s one thing that’s reassuringly familiar it’s the beauty of Ireland’s Garden County. That beauty was captured in this autumnal drone footage of Wicklow.

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