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

IRELAND

Returning Irish Corporal Gerard Hannah meets his three-month-old daughter Lily for the first time today Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• Storm Barney has been wreaking havoc across Ireland all day
• The Northern Irish executive has been saved in a deal arrived at after 10 weeks of discussions
• A woman has been found guilty of the murder of ‘mentally challenged’ 63-year-old Thomas Horan
• Denis O’Brien’s Independent News and Media has turned around its revenue for the first time in eight years
• Doctors at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin were forced to use their smartphones as torches as Storm Barney knocked out the hospital’s power
• Viewers have lodged complaints against Ray D’Arcy’s ‘sexist’ interview with Pamela Anderson
• Pearse Doherty wasn’t allowed to ask the Taoiseach these questions over the IBRC inquiry in the Dáil
• Eamon Gilmore has revealed that he nearly collapsed the government three times
• A drunk driver who killed a woman and paralysed another has had his sentence reduced to four years from seven after a successful appeal
• Gardaí are seeking the occupants of a second car after a delivery man was killed overnight
• Here’s a list of new school building projects being undertaken around Ireland
• An Irish-American billionaire has made the biggest philanthropic donation in Irish history

INTERNATIONAL

Charlie Sheen AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#EGYPT: Two airport workers have been arrested as Russia confirmed that the Egyptian plane crash that killed 224 people was caused by a bomb

#US: Actor Charlie Sheen has admitted to being HIV positive

#BOSTON: A drunk woman on a British Airways flight has been arrested after trying to open an exit door mid-flight

#GERMANY: Police have evacuated a football stadium and cancelled an international friendly between Germany and the Netherlands after concrete evidence of an explosive device was discovered

#FRANCE: French police have released a picture of an unidentified man, one of the suicide bombers killed at the Stade de France last Friday night

INNOVATION

• Touchscreen technology has now evolved to the extent that a smartphone screen can recognise the angle of your finger (TheJournal.ie)
• The Oxford Dictionary has announced that 2015′s word of the year isn’t a word at all, but an emoji. And a particularly irritating emoji at that (DailyEdge.ie)

PARTING SHOT

A crowd of 90,000 people came together in unison this evening at Wembley Stadium. Before the international friendly between France and England, both sets of fans joined as one to sing a heartstopping rendition of the French national anthem La Marseillaise:
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