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The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.

Ireland

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• A Status Yellow freezing fog warning and ice warning are currently in effect nationwide, with forecaster Met Éireann warning people of treacherous conditions across the country
• A total of 32 flights out of Dublin Airport were cancelled today with massive delays reported as airlines struggled to de-ice their planes.
• A woman in her 70s has been killed in a serious collision involving a truck in Co Cork.
• Jonathan Dowdall, a former co-accused of Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch who has turned State’s witness, is due to give evidence in the Regency Hotel murder trial on Monday, despite the status of his Witness Protection Programme application remaining unknown, the Special Criminal Court has heard.
• Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien is due to face a motion of no confidence next week.
• Adopted people seeking personal records related to their birth, early life and medical history have been informed that they may not receive the documents for almost a year.
• Energy company Pinergy has announced that it will be hiking the cost of electricity by 14% from early January.
• Longtime broadcaster Ronan Collins will present the final Ronan Collins Show on RTÉ Radio 1 this month.

International

Moscow city Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#QATAR Belgium has arrested four people including a former MEP as part of a probe into suspected corruption by “a Gulf country” at the EU parliament, the prosecutor’s office said. 

#LONDON A man has denied fatally stabbing an Irish pensioner in London earlier this year. Lee Byer, 44, pleaded not guilty to the murder of 87-year-old Thomas O’Halloran in Greenford, west London, on 16 August.

#MOSCOW One person has died in a massive blaze the size of a football pitch which broke out overnight in a sprawling shopping and entertainment centre in a northern Moscow suburb.

Parting Shot

Veterans of A Company, 35th Infantry Battalion who took part in the Siege of Jadotville in September 1961, during an event to unveil a monument dedicated to their families, at Custume Barracks, Athlone PA PA

Today, a monument was unveiled in Athlone barracks dedicated to the families of Jadotville soldiers.

Irish soldiers from the ‘A’ Company of the 35th Infantry Battalion were on a peacekeeping mission manning a UN post in the town of Jadotville in the Congo in September 1961.

They were surrounded by a group of Katangese Gendarmarie and captured four days later, after suffering continuous attack.

The ceremony was attended by Defence Minister Simon Coveney, with surviving members of the A Company, their families and deceased members being remembered at the event.