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Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

A road death in Offaly and the onset of Storm Frank had everyone talking today.

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

IRELAND

capel Dublin Fire Brigade attending to some unstable masonry on Capel Street in the capital this afternoon Dublin Fire Brigade / Twitter Dublin Fire Brigade / Twitter / Twitter

WORLD

19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards - Show - Los Angeles Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#ENGLAND: Super-gonorrhoea is a thing in England and it could become untreatable

#PARIS: One of the three men who murdered 90 people in the Bataclan theatre in November has been buried without fanfare

#SYRIA: Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher have donated $1 million to charity in the war-torn country

#CZECH REPUBLIC: The Czech president has described the migrant crisis in Europe as an “organised invasion”

#DONCASTER: Three people have been killed after a driver ploughed into a group of pedestrians

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PARTING SHOT

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Disney trolls are at it again, and this time Democrat voters in the US have taken the bait. Nearly half of them say they would accept refugees from Agrabah. Otherwise known as the fictional capital city in the 1992 animated-feature Aladdin. Oh dear.

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