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

A girl walks through the destroyed Our Lady of the Holy Rosary church as mass is delivered at a neighboring construction site in Palo, Philippines. (Wally Santana/PA Images)

IRISH

• Ireland has pledged a further €1.6 million to Philippines relief efforts.
• A man who was involved in an armed robbery of a pub in Drogheda is to appear in court tomorrow.
• A man in Galway died in a road traffic accident.
• A female pedestrian in Leitrim died after being hit by a car while crossing a road outside Mohill.
• The NTMA hopes to announce plans to return to the international debt markets in January.
• The PSNI has issued an appeal for information after a woman in Belfast was sexually assaulted by three men.
• The latest Sunday Indpendent/Millward Brown poll shows Sinn Féin has seen a jump in the polls.
• The General Secretary of the ASTI Pat King said if teachers vote no to the Haddington deal then industrial action will continue.
• The number of grants for the elderly reduced from 7,138 in 2010 to 1,739 so far in 2013, says Fianna Fáil’s Barry Cowen.
• Two petrol bombs were thrown at the Alliance Party East Belfast office.
• Former patients and families who spent time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit  in the Coombe Hospital have reunited with the doctors and nurses that helped them.
• Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath said a post-bailout credit line would provide stability for the country.
• A professional eater stopped by The Hardboiled Egg Cafe to take on their 8lb, 10 oz “World’s Largest Breakfast”.

WORLD

#RUSSIA: A plane has crashed killing at least 50 people.

#ITALY: Mount Etna has erupted in Sicily.

#USA: A severe storm and tornadoes are threatening Midwestern states in the US.

INNOVATION

• Google has opened up Google labs across the US where consumers can visit temporary installations to try out the latest Google hardware. [Mashable]
• A mission to Mars is being launched tomorrow that hopes to search for clues about the planet’s missing water. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Here is Phyliss Radburn (84) revisiting 14 Henrietta St, Dublin, the house where she lived for more than a decade as a child.

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