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

IRELAND

Ben and Holly of ‘Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom’ at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin as the Hospital lights up for Christmas. Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

• The Irish government has denied claims made by Arlene Foster that it ordered the British to withhold details from the DUP about the border plan.
• Four members of the same family who died in a car crash in Wexford last night have been named.
• A man who sexually assaulted a “seriously drunk” and “almost unconscious” woman at a festival has been jailed for ten months.
• The new tax defaulters list shows broadcaster Tom McGurk owed Revenue €75,000.
• A yellow weather warning has been issued as Storm Caroline bears down on Ireland.
• Local residents who are opposed to Apple’s plan to build a data centre in Athenry have launched a last-gasp bid to stall the project.
• A young law student who received first-degree burns when a member of a Ryanair cabin crew accidentally splashed boiling water on his right foot has been awarded €10,000 damages only two hours before graduating in law at UCD.

INTERNATIONAL 

Christine Keeler leaving her London flat in 1963 PA Archive / PA Images PA Archive / PA Images / PA Images

#GERMANY: At least 50 people have been injured in a collision between two trains near Duesseldorf.

#CANADA: A vaginal mesh campaigner has died after being hospitalised for sepsis.

#UK: Former model Christine Keeler, who was at the heart of the Profumo affair, has passed away aged 75.

#US: The longest-serving US congressman has announced his retirement amidst sexual assault allegations.

#YOUTUBE: Google is to deploy a staff of 10,000 to hunt down extremist content on its YouTube platform following recent criticism.

PARTING SHOT 

An Irish girl’s interview with her cat Coco about where Coco liked to be rubbed is going viral.

She started off with some fairly innocuous questions – where she likes being rubbed. Coco explained that everywhere was fine except her tummy which is “forbidden”, her legs and her tail.

However, the interview was terminated shortly after. [TheDailyEdge]