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

IRELAND

Amelia Kavanagh (3) on front of a ginger bread house fry The Natural Bakery. SaskoLazarov / Rollingnews.ie SaskoLazarov / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The Olympic Council of Ireland is refusing to pay the €410,000 bond to allow Pat Hickey leave Brazil.
• Government partners the Independent Alliance are not happy about plans for so-called “booze curtains” in off-licences.
• Ibrahim Halawa is not among 82 people who were pardoned and released by Egyptian authorities today.
• The Irish branch of the European Network Against Racism has warned of the dangers of the new National Party.
• Siptu has authorised ballots by union members for industrial and strike action on public service pay.
• The Department of Finance has started proceedings to sell off part of its stake in AIB.
• The Irish and UK governments are in a fresh dispute over Lough Foyle.
• A woman who repeatedly threatened to bomb President Michael D Higgins has received a suspended sentence.
• Up to 40 CityJet pilots at Dublin Airport are going on strike from next week.
• People have been documenting the first snows of the winter.

WORLD

A clown march in La Paz, Bolivia for the promulgation of Universal Health Insurance. Juan Karita / PA Images Juan Karita / PA Images / PA Images

#DOWN BUT NOT OUT: Hillary Clinton has made her first public appearance since her concession speech.

#PUT A CORK IN IT: As Boris Johnson pushes for UK access to the common market after Brexit, he reminded the Italians how much Brits love prosecco.

#MAKING A MURDERER: A US judge in Wisconsin has ruled that Brendan Dassey must remain behind bars even though his conviction has been overturned.

#RIP: Leonard Cohen died in his sleep after falling in the middle of the night, his manager confirmed.

 INNOVATION

• Tech experts have said that the hacker who took down Netflix and Twitter was probably a disgruntled gamer.
• The International Fact-Checking Network has penned an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg about fake news.

PARTING SHOT

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