NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of the news this Christmas Eve.

IRELAND

The scene on the N7 this evening where a car crashed after it sped away from gardaí. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• Three teenagers have been arrested and one person was hospitalised when a car crashed after it sped away from gardaí on the N7.
• An Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to LA was forced to make an emergency landing in Shannon Airport.
• The deadline has passed for the owner of a Euromillions Plus ticket worth €500,000 to claim their prize.
• Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said his party is taking time to ‘reflect’ on their stance ahead of the planned abortion referendum.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said that the Department of Justice is to be split in two.
• Numerous snow-ice weather warnings are in place around the country.
• A quantity of drugs was found in an army barracks in Dublin.
• Ireland’s fertility rate was shown as the second-highest in Europe.

WORLD

Winter sunshine at the Kelpies on the Forth and Clyde canal at Falkirk. : Andrew Milligan / PA Images : Andrew Milligan / PA Images / PA Images

#NORTH KOREA: US President Donald Trump has said that China has been “caught red handed” allowing oil shipments into sanction-hit North Korea.

#KREMLIN: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that an explosion that tore through a St. Petersburg supermarket was “an act of terror”.

#AFGHANISTAN: More than 40 people were killed and dozens were wounded in a suicide blast targeting Shiites in Kabul.

PARTING SHOT

U2 frontman Bono sat down for an in-depth interview with Rolling Stone magazine and talked about his life and the band he’s spent over 40 years as a member of.

His comments about ‘girly music’ haven’t gone down quite as well, however.