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

IRELAND

The colours of the setting sun are reflected in the snow covered Moanbane Mountain and the clouds above it, as the country gets its first taste of winter weather. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• A second case of bird flu was found in Ireland
• Waterford was awarded a mobile heart cath lab
• A former Sinn Féin councillor was refused bail
• It was revealed political parties spent €416,000 on election posters last year
• Some politicians were referred to the gardaí over their election spending
• The Stack family met with the Taoiseach
• Some people’s wages were delayed due to an Ulster Bank fault
• A mother-of-two was killed in a car crash in Meath

INTERNATIONAL

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#PARIS: The Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam says he is “not ashamed” in a letter to a woman who has been writing to him in prison.

#FLORIDA: A woman who was abducted as a baby in Florida 18 years ago has been found safe and well.

#BREXIT: A British lawyer is bringing a case before the Irish High Court to ask whether the United Kingdom can go back on its decision to leave the European Union.

PARTING SHOT

Last night Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In the speeches, they quoted two of Ireland’s most celebrated poets, W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. But that’s not the first time they’ve quoted the Sligoman.