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

IRELAND

Seven-month-old Water Baby Jade McNamara from Enfield, Co Meath swims with her mother Laura in the Castleknock Hotel, here she's photographed at a Christmas class. Water Babies Water Babies

• Storm Barbara pounded the country
• A professional man was revealed to have fled the country after an attempted assassination attempt by Kinahan gang members
• A Cork toddler was given a licence for medicinal cannabis
• Simon Coveney revealed there were 54 unoccupied beds in homeless shelters last night
• A female pedestrian died after a collision with a car in Leitrim
• A woman in her 20s was killed in a crash in Donegal
• Santa was cleared to fly in Irish airspace

INTERNATIONAL

People watch waves crash over the harbour wall at Porthcawl, South Wales. Ben Birchall / PA Ben Birchall / PA / PA

#BERLIN: Anis Amri, the man believed to be behind the Berlin market attack which killed 12 people, was shot dead in Milan.

#ARMS RACE: Donald Trump has called for an arms race when asked to clarify his recent comment about nuclear weapons.

#HIJACK: Hijackers who claimed to have a grenade took over a Libya plane with over 100 people on board.

#SETTLEMENTS: The UN Security Council demanded that Israel halt settlements, in a resolution adopted after the United States refrained from vetoing the contentious measure.

PARTING SHOT

Imagine waking up 343 days into 2016. This Tom and Hubert sketch does just that. It’s a funny seven-minute look at the year that was.