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

IRELAND

Pictured today at the National Library of Ireland’s Inspiration Proclamation series of public interviews are Professor Mary McAleese and Director of the National Library Dr Sandra Collins. Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• The partner of a woman charged with the manslaughter of her profoundly disabled daughter has told of his horror at finding the 11-year-old cold in her bed.
• The government offered €30,000 to Amanda Mellet, who was forced to travel to the UK for an abortion in 2011.
• A man found decomposed human remains, believed to be female, while walking on a beach in Co Galway.
• The latest article in our Homeless Ireland series looks at the housing situation in regional towns.
• The government will not oppose a medicinal cannabis bill due to be debated in the Dáil tomorrow, ensuring it will be passed.
• The Environmental Protection Agency has outlined the dangers of fracking in a new report.
• After weeks of negotiation, a ‘final’ pay deal was offered to ASTI teachers.
• Gardaí will be legally entitled to rest breaks under new legislation approved by the Cabinet.
• Labour’s Joan Burton hit out at a letter sent to TDs which states that children adopted by same-sex families “are more likely to be sexually abused”.
• New rules were introduced for businesses who want to call their food ‘artisan’ or ‘natural’.

WORLD

Bob Geldof campaigning in Richmond in England with Lib Dem candidate Sarah Olney (left). The singer suggested that Leave (Brexit) supporters appear to be "on crystal meth". Sam Lister PA Wire / PA Images Sam Lister PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#US: President-elect Donald Trump will leave his businesses so he can “fully focus” on the job of running the country.

#COLOMBIA: A plane that crashed in the mountains of Colombia killing 71 people may have run out of fuel, a Colombian military source said.

#UK: Former darts world champion Eric Bristow apologised for suggesting football sex abuse victims were not “proper men”.

#TURKEY: A teacher and 11 schoolgirls died in a dormitory fire at a school in Turkey.

INNOVATION

• Netflix is to start letting users download films and TV shows.
• New rules will allow you to use Netflix or Spotify unrestricted across the EU.

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