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

IRELAND

• The body of Olivia Burke, one of the victims of last week’s balcony collapse in Berkeley, California, has been returned to Ireland. 
• Brendan Smyth told a doctor in 1994 that “it could be that I’ve sexually abused between 50 and 100 children”
• A woman was seriously assaulted in St Stephen’s Green in Dublin this afternoon. 
• The Government jet had to make an emergency landing with the Taoiseach on board this afternoon.
• Limerick County Council demolished a family home by mistake.
• A sex offender was jailed for taking his neighbour’s bra and knickers from the laundry room. 
• Bottles of wine look likely to be set at a minimum of €8, cans of beer at €2.
• A man died in single car collision in Wicklow this morning.
• A 50-year-old woman was arrested after cocaine was found in car by gardaí on uniform patrol.

INTERNATIONAL

Pro-Euro demonstrators gather during a rally in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki's landmark White Tower AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#FINAL COUNTDOWN: Greece has come up with its ‘first real proposals in weeks’

#STRAIGHT TALKING: Barack Obama used the n-word while discussing racism.

#LONDON: Police have arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with two linked sexual assaults.

#ANIMAL WELFARE: ‘Stolen pets’ end up on the dinner table for China’s dog meat festival

INNOVATION 

• This ‘emotional’ robot sold out within the space of a minute. [TheJournal.ie]
• Apple may have billions, but it’s still no match for Taylor Swift. [TheJournal.ie] 

PARTING SHOT 

Someone on Morning Ireland said there was no Santa and Irish parents freaked out. [TheDailyEdge]