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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