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

IRELAND

Santa's on his way to Jervis Street, and made a special appearance there today with Thea Walsh (8) Sasko Lazarov / Rollingnews.ie Sasko Lazarov / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• TDs have hit out at Rent Pressure Zone laws as prices continue to soar.
• Gardaí are investigating after the body of a man was discovered in his home off the Navan Road in Dublin. 
• The family of a woman who died after minor surgery believes she would be alive if there was “proper handover of care”. 
• A windsurfer who went missing off Kerry travelled 25 miles before making it ashore.
• Amnesty International stripped Aung San Suu Kyi of its highest honour.
• Garda Keith Harrison launched a High Court battle to quash the findings from the Disclosures Tribunal.
• 45 women-only posts are to be created in third-level education to address gender imbalance.
• Five men were arrested over an alleged kidnapping of a man in Drogheda.
• A bus driver found guilty over a fatal crash that killed a cyclist avoided jail.
• Garda commissioner Drew Harris is “reviewing” the decision to fund Martin Callinan’s legal defence in a High Court action being taken by Maurice McCabe.

INTERNATIONAL

Stan Lee (centre) - posing with actors Eric Kramer and Lou Ferigno - who died today. Nick Ut / AP/PA Images Nick Ut / AP/PA Images / AP/PA Images

#MARVEL: Legendary comic book writer Stan Lee died aged 95.

#WARNING: A British tourist died after contracting rabies from a cat bite in Morocco.

#ARMISTICE: Donald Trump didn’t attend an event honouring the war dead as he “didn’t want to disrupt traffic in Paris”.

PARTING SHOT

On a day when a comic book legend passed away, there was a silver lining for fans of two well-known cartoon franchises today.

The trailer for Toy Story 4 dropped, as did the trailer for the first live-action Pokémon movie starring Ryan Reynolds as Detective Pikachu (yes, you’re reading that right).