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

IRELAND

Count staff ar Nemo Rangers today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

• A child died following a fatal assault in New Ross, Co Wexford last night.
• The election counting is coming to an end, and amid all the drama, Fine Gael’s Bernard Durkan missed out on a seat in Kildare North while in Cork North-Central, Labour’s Eoghan Kenny became the next Dáil’s youngest TD.
• Elsewhere, Fine Gael general election candidate Nikki Bradley apologised for remarks in which she said that the county of Donegal had a “negative attitude”.
• Meanwhile, Sinn Féin leader Maru Lou McDonald was in contact with the leaders of Social Democrats and Labour.
• A date was fixed for the State’s appeal against the “undue leniency” of the fully suspended sentence handed down to former soldier Cathal Crotty, who beat a woman unconscious on a Limerick street and later boasted about it on social media.
• A court ordered that the State can dispose of the cargo ship alleged to have been used in one of the largest drugs’ hauls in Irish history – which has been costing €100,000 per week to maintain.
• Ballyfermot Garda Station reopened to the public after “suspect devices” found nearby were destroyed.
• A pet owner was jailed over “harrowing” neglect of her Jack Russell dog with an untreated tumour “the size of a huge grapefruit” which ruptured, leaving it fighting for its life.
• A group of pro-Palestine protesters disrupted Mass at Armagh Cathedral yesterday to highlight what it claimed is the Catholic Church’s “silence” on the conflict in Gaza.
• Taxi fares across the country have increased by 9% as of 1 December, which the National Transport Authority said is to reflect the ‘rising costs’ of operating a taxi service.
• A double Child Benefit Payment will be paid to around 676,000 families tomorrow.

INTERNATIONAL

Joe and Hunter Biden in 2022. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#PARDON: Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter antagonised both sides of the US political divide, with Republicans crying hypocrisy and Democrats warning it undermines efforts to rein in Donald Trump.

#MASTERCHEF: Gregg Wallace of Masterchef fame apologised for a post on Instagram in which he said that the allegations he was facing for “inappropriate” behaviour had come from “a handful of middle-class women of a certain age.”

PARTING SHOT

You may be electioned out at this stage, but with the counting now coming to an end, with only Cavan-Monaghan still to declare, why not take a look at who’s been elected where.

Our live results centre is the go-to place for voters to find out the makeup of the 34th Dáil. 

Catch up with how all the counts went with our 2024 General Election results centre here.