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

IRELAND

Frost starts to settle as people go out for a New Year walk on the Curragh Pains in Co. Kildare. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Two men have died in workplace accidents, one in Wexford and another in Monaghan.
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny has said water charges won’t bring down the government.
• An elderly woman died in a house fire in Dublin overnight.
• A woman in her 70s remains in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed at her home in Dublin.
• A man died onboard a flight that was diverted to Shannon yesterday afternoon.
• Government Minister Denis Naughten was injured after being hit by a car while out cycling in Roscommon.

• A new €500,000 Wild Atlantic Way campaign is aiming to lure British visitors to Galway and the north-west.

• James and Emily are the most popular baby names in Ireland.

WORLD

Women soldiers parade in Revolution Square in honor of late Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana. Desmond Boylan / PA Images Desmond Boylan / PA Images / PA Images

#ISTANBUL: CCTV footage of the man suspected of killing 39 people in an attack on a Turkish nightclub has been released.

#PRISON RIOT: At least 60 inmates died during a prison riot in the northern state of Amazonas in Brazil, including several who were beheaded or dismembered.

#THE VATICAN: Pope Francis defended the Catholic Church’s much-vaunted “zero tolerance” approach to abuse.

#RACIAL PROFILING: Police in Cologne have denied allegations of racial profiling after an operation to prevent a repeat of last year’s mass sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve.

PARTING SHOT

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Two American inventors have won an award from Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their gloves that can translate American Sign Language into spoken word.