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

IRELAND

Irish poet, novelist, critic and columnist Anthony Cronin Graham Hughes / Photocall Ireland! Graham Hughes / Photocall Ireland! / Photocall Ireland!

• The chief executive of Dublin City Council Owen Keegan has hit out at the occupation of Apollo House by homelessness activists.
• Siptu announced it is to ballot more than 25,000 health service staff.
• A man has been arrested after handball star Conall McCavitt was hit by a car yesterday. He remains in a critical condition in hospital.
• An elderly patient at a care home was allegedly discovered lying on the floor of their bedroom covered in urine and faeces.
• Mrs Brown’s Boys was the most watched TV show over Christmas.
• Millionaire Ben Dunne has got the green light to open his first gym in Limerick
• An extra 115 special needs assistants are to come on stream next year.
• A Limerick teen was arrested for driving scrambler on a footpath on St Stephen’s day
• Writer Anthony Cronin has died aged 88.

INTERNATIONAL

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington today. Andrew Harnik Andrew Harnik

#ISRAEL: The US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged Israel and Palestine to agree land swaps on 1967 lines in a speech today.

#GERMANY: Police arrested a man who they say may have been involved in the Berlin attack.

#UK: A woman and several injured in 20 car pile-up in the Oxfordshire.

#TRIBUTES: Since Carrie Fisher’s passing yesterday, tributes have been flooding in from those who knew her.

PARTING SHOT

Is this the future of safe driving? This cam footage from a Tesla shows the car’s autopilot function predicting a car accident before anyone saw it coming.