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

Ireland

The sun sets in Co Kildare Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• Four Irish military investigators are travelling to Lebanon tomorrow following the fatal attack on Irish troops, with the repatriation of the body of Private Seán Rooney not yet finalised
• Talks between the three coalition leaders to finalise tomorrow’s Cabinet reshuffle are set to take place later tonight.
• Derek Boyd, who shot his sister Sandra Boyd dead in a tragic accident has been jailed for two years.
• Yesterday was the coldest night of the year as temperatures plunged as low as almost -9 degrees in some areas.
• President Michael D Higgins has signed off on the 2022 Social Welfare Bill, ensuring a €12 rise in weekly payments, and a €40 per week rise in working family payment thresholds.
• Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall has told the Special Criminal Court that his 62-year-old mother and his children have received death threats since he decided to turn State’s witness and give evidence against his former co-accused Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
• Chief Executive of Tusla, Bernard Gloster, has been appointed as the new CEO of the HSE.
• The number of people being arrested for fraud across the State has skyrocketed in the last three years with greater awareness of scams being cited as the reason for the jump.
• Jailed teacher Enoch Burke has told the High Court that he is not interested in what he called a “Christmas gift” of being let out of Mountjoy Prison during the festive period.

International

Political leaders meet with Rishi Sunak earlier today

#ELON MUSK Twitter has suspended accounts of more than a half-dozen journalists who had been writing about the company and its new owner Elon Musk.

#NORTHERN IRELAND UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said that he is working “flat out” to try and restore the power sharing Executive in Northern Ireland following its collapse earlier this year.

#BERLIN A giant aquarium containing around 1,500 tropical fish has burst in Berlin, flooding a hotel lobby and a nearby street and leaving two people injured.

Parting Shot

Today, we asked The Journal readers to send in photos that they took over the last week.

Here are just a few:

Dog playing in the snow, by Ray Brophy

Leaf, by Ciaran Acton

Frozen Rose, by Barbara Jacobi

For more photos, take a look here

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