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

IRELAND

Minister Heather Humphries at the Star Wars - The Last Jedi premiere in Dublin. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• The Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment voted in favour of repealing it from the Constitution.
• Councillors have decided to strip the Freedom of Dublin from Aung San Suu Kyi.
• A 48-year-old father of 15 was charged in relation to a alleged feud shooting in Dublin.
• Ireland’s campaign watchdog has explained why it ruled a donation made to Amnesty International from a US billionaire was found to be illegal.
• A warehouse manager was awarded €20,000 after he was sacked for leaving work to go to his “trapped wife”.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar raised false claims by Donald Trump about Ireland’s tax rate with the acting US ambassador.

WORLD

Workers sort Christmas cards and at the Royal Mail sorting centre in Peterborough, UK. PA Images PA Images

#BREXIT: UK PM Theresa May suffered a damaging defeat after her own MPs rebelled to demand parliament have the final say on the divorce deal with Brussels.

#ALABAMA: Democrat Doug Jones pulled out an upset win over Republican Roy Moore in a US Senate race. Moore’s campaign was overshadowed by allegations of sexual harassment.

#BIRMINGHAM: A surgeon in the UK has pleaded guilty to assault after burning his initials into the livers of two patients undergoing transplants.

PARTING SHOT

TheJournal.ie went behind the scenes as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra rehearses for its upcoming Christmas performances.

From tinsel in their instruments to playing the soundtracks to well-known films, the orchestra have been keeping busy.