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

IRELAND

Minister for Health Simon Harris pictured outside an Emergency Department Taskforce meeting today. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• GPs said they’re not to blame for overcrowded hospitals.
• The founder of Home Sweet Home – the collective which is occupying a vacant Nama building in Dublin city – is no longer allowed access to Apollo House.
• A 33-year-old woman appeared in court to face assault and robbery charges after a woman was stabbed in the neck during a mugging in Dublin earlier this week.
• A man in his 20s was arrested by gardaí from Blanchardstown investigating an alleged sexual assault of an 18-year-old woman last month.
• A 15-year-old boy was arrested and questioned in Wicklow over criminal damage to a defibrillator.
• Some 80 refugees, who are mostly Syrian, are expected to be housed in the Abbeyfield Hotel in Ballaghaderreen within the next 10 to 15 days.
• There were delays on the M50 as a truck went on fire.
• UTV Ireland broadcast live for the last time today.

WORLD

Steam rises above the hot natural spring waters on the rooftop spa at Thermae Bath Spa, England Ben Birchall PA Wire / PA Images Ben Birchall PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#FLORIDA: Five people were killed after a gunman opened fire at Fort Lauderdale Airport.

#US: President-elect Donald Trump met US spy chiefs to receive a briefing on alleged Russian hacking of the US election.

#EUROPE: The number of migrants entering Europe by sea dropped by two thirds in 2016.

PARTING SHOT

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