Here's What Happened Today: Saturday

Tributes to elderly woman who died, first gay weddings take place in Australia and housing protest held in Cork.

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

CHRISTMAS 505_90532331 People shopping on Henry Street today on one of the busiest shopping days before Christmas. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

IRELAND

Tributes have been paid to an elderly woman who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at her home in Limerick.
Bobby Kerr has opened up to Fora.ie about why he left Insomnia Coffee.
An Irish teacher who suffered three cardiac arrests in the UAE has begun to show signs of consciousness.
Ryanair called for airline union Ialpa to call off a strike planned for Wednesday after it said it would recognise the union.
A grandfather who raped his niece on Christmas night was remanded in custody.
Homelessness charity the Peter McVerry Trust said that it will be providing new emergency accommodation for 100 single people and 24 families in Dublin before Christmas.
From next year, stores will have to track the sales of rodent poison, under new EU measures.
The parents of a young girl who killed herself gave a powerful interview on the Late Late Show last night.
The Tuam Home Survivors Network officially launched today.
A protest was held in Cork against the eviction of a number of tenants from a block of apartments.

WORLD

1 Gay Women_90532333 Lauren Price, 31, and Amy Laker, 29, had one of Australia's first gay weddings today. Equal Marriage Rights Equal Marriage Rights

#AUSTRIA: The far right Freedom Party entered power in a coalition with the conservatives.

#AUSTRALIA: The first gay weddings took place in Australia under new laws.

#CANADA: Police were investigating the deaths of a Canadian billionaire and his wife, whose bodies were found in their home.

#ENGLAND: Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has found that a notorious slur that Liverpool fans burned a police horse with cigarettes at Hillsborough was false.

PARTING SHOT

Matthew Spencer Petersen is US President Donald Trump’s nomination to become a federal district judge. But under questioning yesterday he showed that he really wasn’t up to the task. (Via CNN)