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

IRELAND

Joe McHugh, Minister of State for the Diaspora and International Development at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, HE Mrs Vijay Thakur Singh, Ambassador of the Republic of India, President Michael D. Higgins and Mrs. Anita Shukla, First Secretary at the Indian Embassy at the credential ceremony at Áras an Uachtaráin today. Department of Foreign Affairs Department of Foreign Affairs

• Tyrrelstown residents appealed for protection from vulture funds
• As the government launched a plan to tackle rents
• Charity Goal had nearly €4 million in funding released to it
• Staff at Permanent TSB voted in favour of industrial action
• A husband deported after a bogus claim he was in a sham marriage will be back in Ireland for Christmas
• Medical cards will be given to 9,000 children
• The Taoiseach said he used a personal email for government business
• The closing arguments were made in the manslaughter trial of a GP accused of killing her profoundly disabled daughter
• Ibrahim Halawa’s trial was delayed for a 17th time

INTERNATIONAL

President-elect Donald Trump and Kanye West pose for a picture in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Seth Wenig / PA Seth Wenig / PA / PA

#TRUMP: Donald Trump has picked global oil giant Exxon Mobil’s chief Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State. Trump also met with Kanye West today.

#JAILED: A British man has been sentenced to one year and one day in a US prison for trying to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in June.

#ABUSE: There have been 106 allegations of sex abuse connected with people at 30 London clubs including four Premier League sides, police said.

#ALEPPO: A ceasefire has been called after reports civilians were being slaughtered in the Syrian city.

PARTING SHOT

2016 has been a rough one on the world, right? That’s just the writers looking for ratings. According to Fubs Comedy, anyway.