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

IRELAND

CEO of the Asthma Society of Ireland Averil Power (L) , Kevin Kelly with his dog Miles and Environment Minister Denis Naughten (R). The minister was outlining plans to improve air quality. ROB MAXWELL ROB MAXWELL

• Gardaí have described the attack on a student in Maynooth as “quite violent”.
• The State has awarded just under 400 women thousands of euros in compensation each for symphysiotomy procedures.
• President Michael D. Higgins has spoken out against anti-Semitism.
• A Stena Line that spent last night at sea after it was unable to dock has finally berthed in Wales.
• An overflowing landfill in Wicklow has been branded the “worst in the state”.
• The government has approved the promotions of 11 senior gardaí.
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused by opposition TDs of a “gushing” response to the election of Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
• A woman whose stepfather put a dog lead around her neck and sexually assaulted her as a child has condemned him for betraying her.
• A 12-year-old who suffered a laceration to her face while playing ‘Quasar’ with friends at a Leisureplex has been awarded €35,000 damages.

WORLD

A rare near-complete Dodo skeleton is sold for a total of £346,300 in the UK. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#TRUMP’S TRANSITION: President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that Nigel Farage be the UK ambassador to the United States.

#STOLEN JEWELS: Two Qatari women and their driver were held up on a Paris motorway and robbed of valuables worth “at least €5 million”.

#MANITOBA: The mother of a Cork man killed in a car crash in Canada last month says she was astounded by the reaction of her local community.

INNOVATION

• The Irish Internet Association is in serious financial trouble, with its board set to ask members today whether the organisation should be wound up.
• The UK government could force internet service providers to block porn sites that don’t ask for age verification. (BBC)

PARTING SHOT

As right-wing politicians enjoy success in the UK and US with Brexit and Trump, what chance France’s follows with Marine Le Pen?