A Palestinian student walks in front of a mural depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Test results released today showed that Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium when he died in 2004. Pic: Bernat Armangue/AP Images.

IRISH

Taoiseach Enda Kenny insisted patient safety is an ‘absolute priority‘ when questioned about a letter sent by hospital chiefs warning about cuts to the health service.
Despite rejecting a new deal, SIPTU Dublin Bus drivers have v oted against industrial action.
Sinn Féin revealed that the party was anonymously given new Anglo Tapes which they have passed onto gardaí.
Irish viewers are to get a new TV station in 2015, ‘UTV Ireland’.
Australian media have named the woman found outside the GPO as 25-year-old Samantha Azzopardi.
Irish soldiers in Syria’s Golan Heights region were caught in the crossfire of a gun batt le this morning.
419 planned searches, 89 arrests and five European arrest warrants. Gardaí’s Operation Wireless over the past 24 hours.
Secondary students miss an average of 13 days of school every year according to a report.
Nine businesses were closed in October for breaches of food safety rules. All but three have had the orders lifted since.
One million Irish people now have now joined recruitment social network LinkedIn. 10 per cent live abroad however.

WORLD

#MIDDLE-EAST: Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive substance polonium according to Swiss scientists who have carried out tests on his body.

#WINNING: Martin Walsh, the son of Irish emigrants who left Connemara in the 1950s, has been elected mayor of Boston.

#PUSSY RIOT: Jailed member of the Russian protest group Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who was feared missing, is on her way to a new penal colony in Siberia according to her husband.

INNOVATION

In a landmark ruling, a French court today Google to prevent its search engine from providing links to images of a sadomasochistic orgy involving former Formula One boss Max Mosley.
You may have noticed a heap of changes to Twitter over the past week, but did the redesign work? [Buzzfeed]

PARTING SHOT

Tom McDermott sent us in this photo of his half-lab, half-retriever Tayto at sunset. Both he and the sky look wonderful, we think so anyway.

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