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IRELAND

Ryan Tubridy with 6-months-old Lily Cains as her family wait in Dublin Airport for relatives to arrive home for Christmas. Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• A man in his 30s is in a critical condition after being shot a number of times in Waterford this afternoon.
• A man has been arrested by detectives investigating the deaths of two people at a flat in Kinnaird Close in north Belfast.
• Former Irish Defence Forces soldier Lisa Smith, who is to be tried on a charge of membership of the terrorist organisation Isis, has yet to take up bail granted by the courts last week.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he is “annoyed” that former TD Dara Murphy is refusing to take part in an investigation relating to his Dáil attendance and expenses.
• A High Court judge has granted an injunction to restrain protesters from interfering with the fitting out of asylum seeker accommodation in Co Leitrim.
• A Sinn Féin MEP  has accused Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil of “deeply concerning” rhetoric in “dismissing” calls for a United Ireland.
• A Cork man arrested in Hungary last week on foot of a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) in connection with alleged offences related to child sex abuse images in Co Kerry, was remanded in custody today, after a bench warrant for his arrest was executed before a special sitting of Limerick Circuit Court.
• The HSE has been ordered to pay €30,000 in compensation to eight nurses over its failure to publish a report into their bullying claims – five and a half years after the complaints were first lodged.

WORLD

Caroline Flack leaving Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court where she pleaded not guilty to assaulting boyfriend Lewis Burton. Jonathan Brady / PA Wire/PA Images Jonathan Brady / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#GERMANY: A teenage boy missing for more than two years has been found by German police in the cupboard of a suspected paedophile. 

#SAUDI ARABIA Five people have been sentenced to death over the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last year.

#MAXED OUT Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg has resigned from his position as a result of the ongoing 737 MAX scandal.

PARTING SHOT

Wondering how Donald Trump’s impeachment inquiry unfolded? BBC News has joined up with the Washington International Chorus for a specially adapted version of the 12 Days of Christmas to break it all down. 

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