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

St Stephen's Day carnage at a supermarket in Limerick today.

IRELAND

• People were disappointingly polite at today’s Dublin sales. 
• Three people were killed in crashes in Carlow, Cavan, and Wexford
• As if you needed us to tell you, the weather has been terrible.
• A couple in Limerick were hospitalised after a late-night attack.
• Childline received over 1,000 calls and messages from children yesterday.
• A Dublin Bus passenger complained about drivers urinating in front of his daughter.
• Enda Kenny ruled out an election in early January and said he only wants to think about going into government with Labour again.

Rescue teams in Whalley, Lancashire. PA WIRE PA WIRE

WORLD

#DRUMM: David Drumm has launched a new legal challenge as he spends the festive period in a US prison.

#LONDON: There were scenes of panic in a Bromley shopping centre after reports of a man with a machete.

#DOWNPOURS: Heavy rain has led to severe flooding in northern England. [BBC]

#CALIFORNIA: Police are hunting a man suspected of burning a woman to death on Christmas Day.

#ISTANBUL: The Turkish president talked a man out of taking his own life.

INNOVATION

• Got a bit of free time tonight? Have a play around with ‘Find my Phone’, it might come in handy. 

PARTING SHOT

Nasa posted this stunning video of the spectacular light displays the crew on the space station get to see every day as the orbit the Earth.