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

IRISH

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar pictured in California today. The tech giant plans to create hundreds of jobs in Ireland next year. Facebook Facebook

• Gardaí are seeking the public’s help to locate two young boys who are missing from their home in Co Limerick and, in a separate case, a missing teenager from Co Clare.
• A jury convicted retired surgeon Michael Shine of indecently assaulting two young male patients in a hospital in the mid-70s.
• A man in his 50s died after a car and a bus collided in Co Roscommon.
• Garda Superintendent Noel Cunningham said the latest report into the breath test controversy revealing that there may be another 400,000 falsified tests “could be described as a guesstimate“.
• A man who set fire to a Dublin apartment complex, causing €1.25 million in damage and leaving 25 people temporarily homeless, was jailed for five-and-a-half years.
• The Gate Theatre issued a statement following claims about sexual harassment within the industry in Ireland.
• 35 US-born children have been adopted by Irish families since 2013.
• The first ‘fitness to teach’ hearing in Ireland is due to be held next week.
• Here are the books nominated in the 2017 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards.

WORLD

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#CATALONIA: A Spanish judge jailed eight ex-members of Catalan government.

#US: President Donald Trump called for the man behind the New York truck attack, in which eight people were killed, to face the death penalty.

#INDIA: Two men have been sentenced to life in prison for raping their 10-year-old niece, in a case where the girl’s appeal for a late-term abortion was rejected.

#LIVERPOOL: A man who killed his partner’s two-year-old son was jailed for life.

PARTING SHOT

To mark Countdown’s 35th anniversary, DailyEdge has compiled a list of the times a little bit of Ireland popped up on the popular quiz show.

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