NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a roundup of today’s news.

IRELAND

Fine weather from earlier today in the Wicklow Mountains Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald told her party’s Ard Fheis that it is ready to lead government. 
• Earlier, McDonald told reporters she was “profoundly shocked” to learn of former councillor Jonathan Dowdall’s involvement in crime.
• Templemore locals protested outside the Garda college in Co Tipperary over a dispute on the use of a swimming pool. 
• A youth escaped from custody after he was left unattended in a Garda van in Galway.
• A teenage girl was charged with attempted murder in Tyrone.
• A man was charged over a series of robberies targeting pharmacies in Dublin. 
• The FAI said it would review a “structural issue” following the evacuation of fans from a Limerick stadium’s stand during a League of Ireland football match.
• More than 20 branches of Ulster Bank are to switch to Permanent TSB in January.INTERNATIONAL
  

  A man sits in a cafe during a blackout in Kyiv Andrew Kravchenko / AP/PA Andrew Kravchenko / AP/PA / AP/PA

#TWITTER Layoffs at Twitter have fueled concerns over misinformation for upcoming elections.

#DRONES Iran admitted sending drones to Russia for the first time, but said they were supplied before the invasion of Ukraine. 

#COP27 This year’s major climate summit gets underway tomorrow – here’s what you need to know.

#UK Police investigating the bombing of an immigration centre in Dover have said they are satisfied it was motivated by “terrorist ideology”. 

PARTING SHOT

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There was plenty of Irish sporting success today, as Andy Farrell’s men triumphed over the Springboks in the Aviva, while Ryhs McClenaghan made history by becoming Ireland’s first-ever gymnastics world champion at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.

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