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IRELAND

Snow on the Wicklow Mountains today Eamonn Farrell / © RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

• The heavy snow and rain that fell overnight and throughout the day has affected power and water supplies, roads and public transport services, and the capacity of schools to re-open tomorrow after the Christmas break.
• A murder investigation into the death of Paula Canty is underway after the results of a postmortem examination.
• The bill for fencing, clean-up and and other costs associated with preventing homeless asylum seekers from sleeping in tents along the Grand Canal reached almost €800,000 last year.
• We asked our readers to share their experiences of Long Covid. They described the detrimental and even devastating effects – here are their stories.
• Ireland urgently needs solutions for the increasing number of people who are renting as they hit pension age.
• Galway’s An Ceathrú Rua booked a place in the All-Ireland junior club football final this afternoon, while Donegal’s Naomh Pádraig Muff sealed their place in the semi-final.

THE WORLD

Austria's OeVP Secretary General Christian Stocker Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#FLORIDA Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid an unofficial visit to US President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago Florida residence.

#AUSTRIA Austria’s conservatives said they are ready to enter into negotiations with the far right to form a new government in a U-turn in policy after coalition talks with the Social Democrats and liberals broke down.

#SOUTH KOREA South Koreans rallied overnight near the residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, calling for his arrest.

#DC A cartoonist quit her job at the Washington Post after an editor rejected her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before President-elect Donald Trump.

PARTING SHOT

The new season of Ireland’s version of Dancing With the Stars has kicked off on RTÉ One this evening.

Kyran O'Brien Photography Kyran O'Brien Photography