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

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IRELAND

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny said there is no reason why anyone should be sleeping rough this Christmas
• Gardaí renewed their appeal to help find missing teenager Carla O’Connor
• A teen who stamped on a schoolboy’s head got a three year suspended sentence
• Sinn Féin insisted a coalition with Fianna Fáil is ‘extremely unlikely’
• Labour’s new ad says that people can go on dates again 
• A woman was jailed for knocking down a mum of two, leaving her with a brain injury
• Berkeley survivor Clodagh Cogley is back in college in Ireland
• Six people, including RTÉ crew members, were injured when an out-of-control car ploughed into them
• Lara Reddy received online abuse after appearing on the Toy Show
• Bus, rail and Luas fares went up this morning
• Drugs minister Aodhán Ó Riordáin went on a tour around Dublin’s drug hotspots with campaigners

INTERNATIONAL

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#UK Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe will be put back in jail as ‘he’s no longer mentally ill’ say reports

#INDONESIA An investigation shows that the AirAsia crew members ‘lost control’ of the plane before it crashed last year

#TURKEY An explosion near a tram line in Istanbul killed one person

#SYRIA MPs in the UK will vote on air strikes tomorrow

#USA A US marine was found guilty of killing a woman after discovering she was transgender

INNOVATION

• Whatsapp has been accused of blocking links to rival app Telegram. [TheJournal.ie]
• Did youknow that fairy lights could be slowing down your broadband? [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

A recent shooting at a Planned Parenthood centre in the US has put the spotlight back on attacks at abortion clinics. This map from Vox shows that there have been eight murders at abortion clinics in the US since 1977.