NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the news this Christmas Eve.

IRELAND

Cathal, Molly (3) and Aoife Furey from Ringsend joined people walking on the South Wall at Poolbeg lighthouse on a cold sunny December day . Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A man appeared in court in connection with the death of an Irishman in Perth
• A unit Goldman Sachs appeared to be headed for Dublin post-Brexit
• A yellow snow and ice warning  was issued for 21 counties
• Rescuers found a man who had gone missing while walking up Carrauntoohil
• An appeal was made for witnesses to a serious assault on a taxi driver
• Radon was found at 2.5 times the acceptable limit at a Kerry mental health home
• A man was killed after being struck by a car in Donegal

INTERNATIONAL

People enjoy the snow at Broadway Tower on the Cotswold hills, Worcestershire, after overnight snow has caused travel disruptions across parts of the UK. PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#ST PETERSBURG:  An Al-Qaeda bomb exploded in a supermarket in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, injuring 10 people.

#ICELAND: One tourist is dead and 12 others are injured after a coach overturned in Iceland.

#TURN AROUND:  A plane heading from Los Angeles to Tokyo turned back because an unauthorised person was on board.

PARTING SHOT

Here are 50 Irish women who absolutely killed it in 2017. Come on na mbán!