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

Flooding image from the Corbally area of Limerick. Niall Carson / PA Niall Carson / PA / PA

IRELAND

• Flooding is expected to continue in the coming days.
• Paul Murphy and others charged over the Jobstown protest appeared in court.
• A 56-year-old Irishman was killed in a crash on a Welsh motorway.
• Bertie said the financial crisis was caused by Joe Soap and Mary soap getting too many loans.
• Nurses may be close to a deal that would prevent strikes at emergency departments tomorrow. [RTÉ]
• Police in Belfast described a fatal assault on a young man over the weekend as “sustained and vicious”.
• A Limerick man who sexually abused his daughter was jailed for seven years.
• Irish women had almost 25,000 abortions in the UK in the last five years.
• Heroin deaths in Ireland are on the rise for the first time in four years.
• Hundreds of shooting stars will be visible over Ireland tonight.

An image from a bus crash in Argentina today. Salta Police Salta Police

WORLD

#PARIS: A teacher who claimed he was stabbed by a man who supported the so-called Islamic State admitted he invented the story.

#ARGENTINA: At least 41 people were killed in a bus crash.

#PHILIPPINES: Some 750,000 people were evacuated as a strong typhoon made landfall. [Reuters]

#DR FOX: British DJ Neil Fox was cleared of sexual assault charges.

#PERU 2: Drug mules Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid will spend another Christmas in a Peruvian prison as a workers’ strike delayed their court hearing.

INNOVATION

• Tindr‘s UK users as being asked to swipe right to become organ donors. [Mashable]
• The wait is almost over for Reddit‘s official Android app. [Techcrunch]

PARTING SHOT

The Guardian spent 48 hours patrolling the streets with ambulance crews in Bethlehem and their video gives a real insight into the impact of the unrest.