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LAST UPDATE | 17 Dec 2025
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day.
1. Australian police have charged one of the alleged Bondi Beach gunmen with murder and terrorism, as grief-stricken mourners buried the first of 15 people slain in the attack.
2. The Government has rolled back on its plans to disband the Road Safety Authority (RSA), The Journal can reveal.
3. Members of Fianna Fáil are split on the fate of its leader today after a meeting of the parliamentary party examining a review of its presidential election campaign went on into the night yesterday.
4. A search of a Co Monaghan site for the remains of Columba McVeigh, one of the “Disappeared”, has ended without success.
5. Gardaí released a man back to the Midlands Prison without charge after arresting him in connection with an alleged assault that is suspected to be associated with the Edenderry double-murder investigation.
6. The son of famed Hollywood director Rob Reiner will be charged with two counts of first degree murder over the brutal slaying of his parents in their Los Angeles home.
7. FBI experts have combed through the vicinity of a weekend mass shooting that killed two students at the elite Brown University, as the hunt for the gunman dragged into a fourth day.
8. SpunOut, a mental health support charity for young people, defended its text messaging service after concerns about possible AI use were raised online.
9. The second of two doctors who supplied Friends star Matthew Perry with ketamine in the months before he fatally overdosed was sentenced to home confinement by a California court yesterday.
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