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

IRELAND

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• Gardaí are seeking information about a black Kia Rio that was used in the fatal attack in Edenderr that saw a four-year-old and his grand-aunt killed. 
• Flu season has peaked but the HSE is warning people to be vigilant over the New Year period. 
• Gardaí have said one of the motorists they stopped during their Christmas road traffic enforcement operation was travelling at more than 200kms per hour in a 100km/hr zone near Limerick city.
• Profits have risen to record leels for sport brand for O’Neills. 
• The Central Statistics Office has worked out how much you could save by cutting back on alcohol, smoking and eating out. 
• A woman was airlifted to the Mater Hospital this afternoon after being seriously injured in a dog attack in Carlow town. 

 INTERNATIONAL 

Cecilia Giménez Zueco, the famous restorer a year after the restoration of Ecce Homo.

 #ECCE HOMO FRESCO: the Spanish woman who restored the 100-year-old painting of Jesus Christ has died at the age of 94. 

#GAZA: Israel has banned Doctors Without Borders and 25 other NGOs from the Gaza strip. 

#UKRAINE has said that there is ‘no plausible evidence’ that it attacked Putin’s home. 

PARTING SHOT

Fota Wildlife Park in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork has announced the birth of a black-and-white colobus monkey, who is in need of a name. 

Black and white colobus monkey baby born at Fota Wildlife Park

 The monkey was born on 30 October to parents Freya and Juggs, Mother Freya, born in December 2017, arrived at Fota Wildlife Park nearly four years ago from La Palmyre Zoo in France.

Father Juggs, born in November 2007, has been a resident at Fota since June 2011, having transferred from Belfast Zoo as part of a European breeding programme.

The new arrival has one older sister, Frida, who arrived into the world in August of last year. She has already been spotted “babysitting” her younger sibling.