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IRELAND

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• Gardaí have launched an investigation into a suspected murder-suicide following the discovery of two bodies at a house in Letterkenny, Co Donegal.
• Boosters jabs are to be made available in vaccination centres for over-30s from next week, with first doses for children 5-11 from next month.
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that the government must approach the issue of vaccinating children with “sensitivity”.
• 7,411 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland, with hospitalisations at 390 down from 429 yesterday.  
• Anti-lockdown groups were found to be are sharing a database of the principals of nearly every primary school in the country. 
• Justice Minister Helen McEntee has said  ‘stark’ findings shows one in 20 people have had intimate images shared online.
• The planning battle over the future of the Cobblestone pub in Dublin’s Smithfield area is not over and will continue into 2022.

WORLD

Snowfall in Hamburg, Germany. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#RIP: Joan Didion, the revered American author and essayist, died at the age of 87. 

#OMICRON: The omicron variant of Covid-19 is less likely to result in severe disease and hospital admission, the UK Health Security Agency has said, but it warmed that hospitalisations may still increase. 

#SHIPWRECK: A boat disaster off the coast of Madagascar this week claimed 85 lives, maritime officials have said, after 21 more bodies were retrieved. 

#NO VERDICT: The jury deliberating on on the court case of British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been sent home for the Christmas holidays.

PARTING SHOT

Absolute genius time-sink – how quickly can you find people in the original Band Aid photo? https://t.co/8UxUQSniA5

— Martin Belam (@MartinBelam) December 23, 2021

One perhaps for any 1980s music buffs. 

A game that gives you the names people from the original Band Aid and you have to find them in the photo. Good luck, it’s very hard. 

Where’s Bono? The Band Aid Memory Game

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