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

IRELAND

Crowds gather for the switching on of O'Connell Street's Christmas lights this evening in Dublin Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leon Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Three young men have been injured, one seriously, in a car accident in Kildare 
• Thousands were left without power as Storm Clodagh battered Ireland
• Burglars tricked an elderly man by pretending to check his drains while cash was taken from his home
• Bob Geldof has opened up about the death of his daughter Peaches
• A man was seriously injured after falling from scaffolding at a building site in Dublin city centre
• Dublin caught the Christmas fever as O’Connell Street’s festive lights were switched on
• An investigation into the death of a young man with learning difficulties, who was beaten to death, has been re-opened

WORLD

Police and protesters clashing at today's climate change protest in Paris AP AP

#PARIS: Hundreds have been arrested after climate change protesters clashed with police. Elsewhere around the world, thousands marched in protest against climate change in advance of a UN summit on the subject starting tomorrow in the French capital

#US: TIME Magazine asked whether or not Kim Kardashian or Caitlyn Jenner should be named as its ‘Person of the Year’. People were not impressed.

#LOS ANGELES: A newborn baby girl has been rescued from being buried alive under a riverbed in the city of Compton

#TURKEY: The EU and Turkey have agreed a €3 billion aid deal to stem the migrant crisis

INNOVATION

• The surgeon who performed an incredible face transplant explains how he did it (TheJournal.ie)
• How to escape a supermassive black hole, according to some very complicated science (i100)

PARTING SHOT

The gardaí put out an appeal for the owners of this little fellow to come forward after he was found wandering around Tallaght Hospital. All’s well that ends well though – the owner was soon found. (Dailyedge.ie)