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IRELAND

Campaigners have been urging the government to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Andres Poveda Andres Poveda

• A man his mid-20s has been arrested in connection with a serious assault in Bray.
• A man is in a critical condition in hospital after he was stabbed multiple times in Co Offaly.
• Gardaí has been allocated €55 million to specifically address the threat of international terrorism.
• New rules mean that some top jobs in the civil service must go to women to address gender imbalances.
• The head of the HSE said that the health service needs an injection of €9 billion to solve the ongoing crises
• Gardaí are investigating after two deer were shot and one was decapitated in Co Meath.
• Mary Lou McDonald TD said that Sinn Féin is ‘in transition’ and she wants it to be ‘seamless’.
• Farmers will receive €570 for the first 10 cows in their herd, and €480 for each remaining cow in a scheme aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

WORLD

Workers install a flag IN Washington ahead of this week's inauguration of Donald Trump. Patrick Semansky / AP Patrick Semansky / AP / AP

#HARD BREXIT: British PM Theresa May will target a clean divorce from the EU when she sets out her Brexit plans this week, according to reports.

#MEDITERRANEAN: Nearly 100 people are missing after their boat capsized and sank off the Libyan coast.

#DIAMOND THEFT: A French newspaper has published Kim Kardashian’s testimony to police of how a robber threatened her at gunpoint when she refused to hand over a $4 million ring.

#BIG STOP: World famous circus Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey is to close after 146 years.

PARTING SHOT

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On the final weekend before Donald Trump becomes US President, Saturday Night Live had some fun with the so-called ‘dirty dossier’ Russia holds on Trump.

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