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

IRELAND

Pictured are Garda forensics leaving the scene of a fatal stabbing in Edenderry, C Offaly. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A man died after suffering a number of stab wounds at a house in Offaly.
• A RTÉ sports producer was charged with child sex offences in the UK.
• Al Porter is “standing aside” from this year’s Olympia pantomime.
• Gardaí appealed for information over a 20-year-old woman missing since last week.
• A verdict of murder-suicide was recorded at the inquest into the deaths of Tom and Kitty Fitzgerald (72) in Claremorris, Mayo, last year.
• Dublin lost out on its bid to host the European Banking Authority post-Brexit after Paris was picked out of a hat.
• Two senior Sinn Féin members ruled themselves out of running for the party’s presidency.
• A garda who claimed he was subjected to racial abuse at work went to the High Court over his sick pay.
• Many families were left disappointed at yesterday’s Christmas Procession of Light in Dublin due to more overcrowding issues. 

WORLD

The headlines of both the New York Daily News and the New York Post both report on the the death in prison of serial killer and cult leader Charles Manson. SIPA USA / PA Images SIPA USA / PA Images / PA Images

#USA: Cult leader and serial killer Charles Manson died at the age of 83.

#GERMANY: Angela Merkel’s political future was plunged into doubt after coalition talks failed meaning Germany might have to go back to the polls.

#ZIMBABWE: The fate of President Robert Mugabe is still unknown as the 93-year-old refuses to give up office despite the military coup.

PARTING SHOT

One of the more enduring legacies of Barack Obama’s eight year tenure as president of the United States is his bromance with Vice President Joe Biden.

A lot of users on social media had created memes of the two – with many guessing what the two were saying in any given moment. Here’s a nice example:

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Well, now social media users don’t have to wonder any more.

Obama used his own Twitter account to let us all know the bromance is alive and well.

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