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

IRELAND

Patsy Redmond and Ralph O'Reilly at the opening of the IFA Live Animal Crib at The Mansion House in Dublin. Conor McCabe Conor McCabe

• Fianna Fáil has committed to an extension of the confidence and supply agreement with Fine Gael for another year, ruling out an election in 2019.
• Irish woman Cathrina Cahill who killed her fiance in Sydney has been sentenced to eight years in prison. 
• Estonian hitman Imre Arakas was jailed for six years for conspiring to murder James Gately.
• The government had built less than half of its planned social housing for 2018 by the end of September, new figures show.
• Gardaí in Dublin investigating an alleged sexual assault on a female in the early hours of Sunday morning are appealing for witnesses. 
• The BAI is looking at whether it’s possible for steaming sites to suggest different content for Irish viewers.
• A man in his 60s was killed after being struck by car while walking in Dublin.
• There are now 2.19 million people employed in Ireland after over 61,900 people entered employment in 2017.

WORLD

Michael Cohen walks out of court after being sentenced to three years in jail. PA Images PA Images

#MAY DAY: UK Prime Minister Theresa May has won a confidence vote of her fellow Conservative MPs.

#JAILED: US President Donald Trump’s Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has been sentenced to three years in prison for crimes including hush-money payments.

#STRASBOURG: The 29-year-old man who is suspected of last night’s shooting at a French Christmas market is still on-the-run. 

PARTING SHOT

Actor Christian Bale has spoken about meeting about Donald Trump when filming Batman and that Trump “thought I was Bruce Wayne”.

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