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

People shopping on Henry Street today on one of the busiest shopping days before Christmas. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

IRELAND

• Tributes have been paid to an elderly woman who was found dead in suspicious circumstances at her home in Limerick.
• Bobby Kerr has opened up to Fora.ie about why he left Insomnia Coffee.
• An Irish teacher who suffered three cardiac arrests in the UAE has begun to show signs of consciousness.
• Ryanair called for airline union Ialpa to call off a strike planned for Wednesday after it said it would recognise the union.
• A grandfather who raped his niece on Christmas night was remanded in custody.
• Homelessness charity the Peter McVerry Trust said that it will be providing new emergency accommodation for 100 single people and 24 families in Dublin before Christmas.
• From next year, stores will have to track the sales of rodent poison, under new EU measures.
• The parents of a young girl who killed herself gave a powerful interview on the Late Late Show last night.
• The Tuam Home Survivors Network officially launched today.
• A protest was held in Cork against the eviction of a number of tenants from a block of apartments.

WORLD

Lauren Price, 31, and Amy Laker, 29, had one of Australia's first gay weddings today. Equal Marriage Rights Equal Marriage Rights

#AUSTRIA: The far right Freedom Party entered power in a coalition with the conservatives.

#AUSTRALIA: The first gay weddings took place in Australia under new laws.

#CANADA: Police were investigating the deaths of a Canadian billionaire and his wife, whose bodies were found in their home.

#ENGLAND: Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has found that a notorious slur that Liverpool fans burned a police horse with cigarettes at Hillsborough was false.

PARTING SHOT

Matthew Spencer Petersen is US President Donald Trump’s nomination to become a federal district judge. But under questioning yesterday he showed that he really wasn’t up to the task. (Via CNN)