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

IRELAND

Brendan O Carroll with Joe Duffy on Grafton Street for his Christmas Eve radio show. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• Three cancer patients from St Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar, Dublin were taken to hospital following a fire on one of the wards in the early hours of this morning.
• Gardaí began an investigation after a man was stabbed in Cork.
• A teenager from Wicklow was caught up in an illegal money laundering operation.
• Gardaí appealed for information to find a man missing from Roscommon since last Wednesday.
• Leo Varadkar said he didn’t know if anyone will be sanctioned or held to account for the massive overspend on the new National Children’s Hospital.
• Over 1,200 Irish people were arrested by the UK’s Met Police this year.
• Doctors and nurses have been tweeting Leo Varadkar from work to remind them of the unsociable and long hours they work.
• Santa has been given the green light to enter Irish airspace tonight.

INTERNATIONAL 

A smoke column comes out of the Etna volcano in Catania, Italy. AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#INDONESIA: The death toll from the Indonesian tsunami has risen to 373.

#UK: A couple who were wrongly arrested over suspicion of involvement in the Gatwick drone crisis have said that the way they have been treated is “disgusting”.

#DUBAI: A missing Dubai princess who was not seen for nine months has reappeared after she was photographed for the first time alive and well with former president Mary Robinson.

PARTING SHOT

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From all of us here at TheJournal.ie – have a lovely Christmas.