EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you start your day.
1. #WEATHER: A wet start to the weekend but things should get milder as the days progress.
2. #TRUMP: The US president-elect is due to meet with intelligence officials to be briefed over Russia’s alleged involvement in influencing last year’s presidential election.
3. #TROLLEYS: The hospital emergency task force is due to meet today to discuss this winter’s trolley crisis, RTÉ reports.
4. #NAMA: The State-run bad bank identified close to 7,000 homes for social housing last year, but only 2,748 have been taken up by councils.
5. #SETANTA: A total of 1,666 claimants of Setanta Insurance are still waiting to be paid – nearly three years after the collapse of the firm.
6. #ARREST: A woman has been charged after a woman was mugged and stabbed multiple times in Drumcondra on Tuesday evening.
7. #FACEBOOK LIVE: Outgoing US president Barack Obama has labelled an attack by four men on another man with mental health difficulties as “despicable”.
8. #RSA: Research from the Road Safety Authority has found there are 7,651 drivers with multiple banning orders on them still on the road, the Irish Times reports.
9. #Ballaghaderreen: Roscommon county councillors will meet today to discuss plans to house 80 mostly Syrian refugees in a former hotel in Ballaghaderreen, the Irish Times reports.
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