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

IRELAND

Aoife Meehan and Lauren Gleeson from Dublin enjoying Funderland at the RDS in Dublin. Sasko Lazarov / Photcall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photcall Ireland / Photcall Ireland

• The High Court told doctors they could withdraw life support from a clinically dead pregnant woman.
• Pearse McAuley remains under arrest in hospital after his wife was stabbed on Christmas Eve.
• St Stephen’s Day sales started with people queuing from 6am and others grabbing bags from each other.
• A woman was charged in connection with a stabbing in Drogheda.
• Liam Neeson joined other Irish celebrities in coming out against water charges.
• The number of deaths on the road reached 195, ten more than last year.
• Today is Wren Day (apparently), there were sporadic celebrations nationwide.

INTERNATIONAL

The Duke of Beaufort hunt in Gloucestershire. Steve Parsons / PA Steve Parsons / PA / PA

#TURKEY: A Turkish court ordered the release of a 16-year-old high school student arrested for “insulting” President Erdogan.

#HYPER-INFLATION: Russian President Vladimir Putin has cancelled New Year holidays and told officials to put a lid on rising vodka prices.

#THAILAND: The trial of two Burmese men accused of killing two British tourists has begun.

#TSUNAMI: Thirteen countries from Africa to Thailand are marking 10 years since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 250,000 people.

INNOVATION

• Kim Dotcom is taking credit for stopping a Christmas cyber attack on Sony’s Playstation and Microsoft’s Xbox networks.
  
• The Interview is now online, but is it any good?
• Review time, the best smartphone games of 2014.

PARTING SHOT

If the reality of the Irish Marriage Bar has never quite been brought home to you, this 1967 contract might do just that.