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

IRISH

The scene near Mullaghmore in Sligo this evening. Gerry O'Donnell / Twitter Gerry O'Donnell / Twitter / Twitter

• A storm warning is in place this evening, as Storm Eva sweeps in
• Some homes have been left without power as a result of the windy weather
• Averil Power defended using taxpayer money to print 73,000 calendars
• The President called a meeting of the Council of State over a law that was rushed through the Dáil 
• A man in his 20s was killed in an overnight road crash
• The search continued for a student last seen in Galway in the early hours of Friday
• It emerged a book about murderer Graham Dwyer has been banned from the library of the prison where he is being held   
• A young mother who underwent the country’s first ever heart and lung transplant said she was looking forward to Christmas with her family

Starlings fill the sky over in Gateshead, England - flying and swooping before the sun goes down in what is known as a murmuration. PA WIRE PA WIRE

#ISIS Iraqi forces reported progress in the military operation to retake the city of Ramadi from Islamic State

#BARRED It emerged US authorities prevented a British Muslim family from boarding a flight from Gatwick to Los Angeles for a holiday in Disneyland

#BIG PRIZE An unemployed Senegalese man who was rescued by the Spanish coast guard on a packed wooden boat has won €400,000 in Spain’s annual Christmas lottery

INNOVATION

• The Beatles have ended their long-running streaming holdout – the band’s songs are set to appear on a number of music services for the first time this Christmas
• And more than 3,000 US prisoners have been released early because of a software glitch [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

Here’s a bumper Christmas puzzle for you – can you find the panda in this big snowman puzzle? (he’s in there, honest) [Tech Insider]

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