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

IRELAND

Dublin Fire Brigade attending to some unstable masonry on Capel Street in the capital this afternoon Dublin Fire Brigade / Twitter Dublin Fire Brigade / Twitter / Twitter

• A man died after his car entered a river in Co Offaly
• People got ready for yet more bad weather as Storm Frank announced his arrival
• A seven-year-old boy was killed and seven others injured in a car crash in Antrim
• Counties Limerick and Clare braced for the worst as more flooding was deemed ‘inevitable’
• Searches continued for three missing men in Cork
• Police are looking to trace the movements of a man after his “unexplained” Christmas death
• A Clare family thanked volunteers as the search for missing Michael Bugler continues
• It has been a record-breaking year for both the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Coast Guard

WORLD

Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#ENGLAND: Super-gonorrhoea is a thing in England and it could become untreatable

#PARIS: One of the three men who murdered 90 people in the Bataclan theatre in November has been buried without fanfare

#SYRIA: Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher have donated $1 million to charity in the war-torn country

#CZECH REPUBLIC: The Czech president has described the migrant crisis in Europe as an “organised invasion”

#DONCASTER: Three people have been killed after a driver ploughed into a group of pedestrians

INNOVATION

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PARTING SHOT

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Disney trolls are at it again, and this time Democrat voters in the US have taken the bait. Nearly half of them say they would accept refugees from Agrabah. Otherwise known as the fictional capital city in the 1992 animated-feature Aladdin. Oh dear.