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

IRELAND

Storm Frank making its presence felt this afternoon at Gyle's Quay, Co Louth Julie Corcoran Julie Corcoran

• Storm Frank has finally arrived and is battering the west coast of the country with high-speed winds. Four weather warnings are in place
• A man who faced deportation from Ireland over alleged links to Isis has been granted a short stay on that order following an appeal this evening
• The final go-ahead has been given for the Corrib gas line to operate
• There were some familiar faces at this morning’s meeting of the Council of State
• A man is in a serious condition in Cork following an ‘altercation’
• The Coast Guard lent assistance to the rescue of a man who broke his ankle on a Kerry mountain
• A 19-year-old man was killed, and two other men injured, following a two-car collision at Geashill, Co Offaly
• A legal bid against Dundrum on Ice was thrown out of court
• Gardaí appealed for the public’s help in finding missing woman Anne Marie O’Brien
• Pat Dorrian, the mother of ‘disappeared’ Catholic woman Lisa Dorrian, has died
• Former Kerry football star Patrick Curtin has died following an accident in Guatemala
• A young man spent Christmas in hospital after a mystery assault
• President Higgins led tributes following the death of Irish author Aidan Higgins

WORLD

Mark Salling, the 33-year-old former star of tv show Glee, who was arrested this evening in California in connection with the possession of child pornography AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#USA: A former star of the hit tv show Glee has been arrested in connection with the possession of child pornography

#BELGIUM: Two people have been arrested over a New Year terror plot

#JAPAN: Someone left thousands of lottery tickets in a lift with one instruction attached

#UK: A swingers venue went on fire last night in Birmingham

#SYRIA: An Islamic State leader with a ‘direct link’ to the Paris terrorist attacks in November has been killed in an airstrike

#COLORADO: This photo of a tornado has won the National Geographic image of the year for 2015. View all the amazing winning photos here

#ACE OF SPADES: Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, lead singer with Motörhead, has passed away from cancer

INNOVATION

• The X-Files is on its way back. Excited? We certainly are. And now the show’s producers have released a 21-minute preview of what fans can expect (Geek.com)
• Disney have jumped on the robot bandwagon by designing one that can climb walls by itself (TheJournal.ie)

PARTING SHOT

Famed British writer and all-round God-denier Richard Dawkins has been on the receiving end of some amusing Twitter trolling. Read the full exchange here