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

IRELAND

Flowers left on a beach in Balbriggan near where the body of a baby was found yesterday. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• The body of baby found on a Dublin beach yesterday was determined to be a full-term baby girl.
• Eight people were injured in a raid on a Roscommon farmhouse that’s at the centre of an eviction dispute.
• A digger was used in the theft of an ATM from the wall of a bank in Ballybay, Co. Monaghan.
• It was reveleaved that the Taoiseach’s department has spent over €467,000 on the production of videos since Leo Varadkar replaced Enda Kenny.
• An average of 17 properties worth €1 million or more are sold every week in Ireland.
• Simon Coveney described as ‘nonsense’ a UK newspaper story which claimed that Theresa May ‘loathes’ Leo Varadkar.
• Three people were assaulted and another was injured after jumping from a window during a violent burglary in Co Down.
• A new opinion poll showed that Fine Gael remains the most popular party in the country.
• Doubt has been cast by the government on the future of the Jobpath scheme.  

WORLD

Noodle and Shnitzel take part in a sausage dog festive walk in Hyde Park, London. Jonathan Brady / PA Images Jonathan Brady / PA Images / PA Images

#BREXIT: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern both attacked Theresa May’s handling of Brexit.

#CLIMATE CHANGE: In UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland delivered a milestone rulebook for the Paris climate treaty but failed to dial up national efforts to slash carbon emissions.

#US POLITICS: US President Donald Trump has called his former lawyer Michael Cohen “a rat”, four days after Cohen was sentenced to three years in jail.

PARTING SHOT

Yesterday’s Storm Deirdre may have passed, but it cause some disruptions to air travel. Not least at Manchester Airport where these planes were struggling to land.