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

IRELAND

Tully Park, one of three parks planned for a new 3,800 home site at Cherrywood in South Dublin Hines Hines

• Three weather warnings were issued here for snow-ice, rain, and wind
• Environment minister Alan Kelly denied that he had leaked the results of an internal Labour poll
• A developer has put in place plans for the first phase of a 3,800 home development at Cherrywood in south Dublin
• Motorists are conning insurance companies, and it’s driving up premiums
• A pregnant woman was punched in the face in Cork
• Abortion should be made available in cases of rape and fatal foetal abnormality, according to a landmark ruling by the Belfast High Court
• A man was jailed for six years for raping his wife
• Almost half the country watched the Toy Show last Friday night
• Peter McPartlin, boss of Today FM and TXFM, is resigning
• A judge has been asked not to jail a Dublin man who had sex with a 15-year-old
• A woman in her 70s has died in a house fire in Cavan town

INTERNATIONAL

The crash site of MH17 Associated Press Associated Press

#NETHERLANDS: A Dutch policeman has been arrested for attempting to sell items from the wreckage of crashed airliner MH17

#CALIFORNIA: A suspected burglar has been killed after a fire was lit in a chimney he was stuck in

#RUSSIA: An army deserter has been apprehended, after spending the last ten years living in hiding in a forest

#PARIS: 150 world leaders have gathered for a heavily-guarded UN summit on climate change in the French capital

INNOVATION

• Amazon has given us a clearer look at how its drones are going to work (TheJournal.ie)
• Activists in Brazil have been erecting billboards outside people’s homes with their racist tweets emblazoned on them (i100)

PARTING SHOT

Here’s an infographic with a difference. A map of Finland’s bear population constructed entirely out of bears (look closer)

Annukka Makijarvi Annukka Makijarvi

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