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

IRELAND 

A person passing a Dublin Fire Brigade mural on Camden Street in Dublin today. Source: Rollingnews.ie

• A further six people with Covid-19 died and 226 new cases were confirmed in Ireland. 
• A phased lifting of the Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions during December is expected to be announced this week. 
• The distribution or publication of intimate images without consent and with intent to cause harm is due to carry a maximum penalty of an unlimited fine and/or seven years imprisonment under proposals approved by Cabinet. 
• Cinemas, galleries and museums are set to re-open in December as the country moves out of Level 5. 
• Covid-19 was listed as the fourth most common underlying cause for registered deaths in Ireland in the first 10 months of this year.
• The temporary ban on evictions and a rent freeze for those in financial trouble is to be extended until at least April, the Cabinet agreed. 
• Organising an event in a private dwelling in contravention of the government’s Covid-19 regulations will carry a fine of €500 being imposed. 
• Thousands of people have signed a petition in protest over female students at a school in Carlow reportedly being told to not wear tight clothing to PE classes.
• A judge ordered the arrest of footballer Anthony Stokes, who is accused of headbutting a man in Dublin’s Temple Bar. 
• The National Parks and Wildlife Service launched an investigation into the discovery of dead seals on Banna Beach, Co Kerry in recent weeks. 

WORLD 

Six anti-deportation protesters outside a London court on the first day of a hearing against their conviction. They were convicted in 2018 of the intentional disruption of services at an aerodrome. Source: PA

#ELECTION 2020: US President Donald Trump came his closest yet to admitting election defeat after the government agency meant to ease Joe Biden’s transition into the White House said it is finally lifting its unprecedented block on assistance.

PARTING SHOT

Two Charles Darwin manuscripts were reported as stolen from Cambridge University Library two decades after they were last seen.

See some of the sketches here