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IRELAND

• The annual Grafton Street busking session had to be shut down early.
• Storm Barbara winds were so strong they blew a window of Facebook’s HQ.
• Volunteers at Apollo House are preparing to give residents a memorable Christmas Day.
• The Taoiseach said he could not rule out a terror attack in Ireland.
• The Coast Guard paid tribute to people lost at sea.
• George Galloway and a Dublin councillor had a heated row on Twitter.
• Stores in Dundalk are fighting back against cross-border shopping.

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WORLD

#EMERGENCY: Actress Carrie Fisher is in intensive care after having a heart attack on a plane.

#SETTLEMENTS: Jordan welcomed the UN Security Council’s resolution demanding a halt to Israeli settlements.

#BRITAIN: Theresa May challenged her citizens to ‘forge a bold new role’ in her Christmas message.

#GERMANY: Tens of thousands of people will be evacuated from their homes tomorrow morning so a World Word II bomb can be defused.

#RIP: Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt died.

PARTING SHOT

It won’t be long now until Santa arrives in Ireland and starts delivering presents to all of the little boys and girls who will definitely have gone to bed early without any fuss. People who dare to question the big man in the red suit often ask how he manages to get around the world in one night. Well we’ve got a festive Factcheck to explain just that…

All of us here at TheJournal.ie would like to wish our readers a very Merry Christmas.

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