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

Brown Thomas. Today. (Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• The weather is sh*te again.
• A lot of people went shopping.
• A man was stabbed to death and another seriously injured during a fight at a Christmas party in Shankill.
• A garda was treated in hospital after attempting to save someone from a burning building.
• There was another tragedy on our roads as a woman in Offaly died in a car crash.
• Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs Brown’s Boys was the most watched programme in the UK yesterday.
• IDA Ireland has something in common with hurling and Jedward…it has been praised strongly by the Guardian.
• Childline responded to 1,450 calls, texts and messages yesterday.
• A new report says that young people should be given discounts on their health insurance.
• A man arrested over a suspicious death in Wexford has been released without charge.

WORLD

#ENGLAND: A 31-year-old man was shot dead at a private function in an upmarket London nightclub at 3am today.

#INDIA: An Indian gangster escaped from custody after giving the guards food laced with sedatives.

#ENGLAND: The parents of an autistic boy in Manchester said their son’s Christmas was ruined when arsonists set fire to the sensory room they had built him as a present.

#USA A two-month-old girl was shot dead in her home in Pennsylvania on Christmas Eve.

INNOVATION

Image: Joe Giddens/PA Wire/Press Association Images

• Banks in the UK are set to accept photos of cheques sent by smartphone, the British Treasury said today. [Guardian]
• Google hates being gamed, says Business Insider today as it explains how the search engine has punished startup Rap Genius for trying to improve its search results.
• As many of you have spent the day watching football from across the water, Harry Collins from Cardiff University mused over how accurate (or inaccurate) Hawk-Eye can actually be. [The Conversation]

PARTING SHOT

BBC News sent a photojournalist to Kashmir to see how the world’s most expensive spice – saffron – is harvested. The resulting images are simply beautiful.

EXTRA* CONTENT

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