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

Miriam, Paddington Bear and a startled child help turn on the Christmas lights at Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel.

IRELAND

• Ireland rugby legend Dr Jack Kyle died, aged 88.
• A Stormont committee found Iris Robinson committed a “serious breach” of conduct.
• Joan Burtonhad another pop at Sinn Féin.
• While Michael Noonan said the USC was here to stay.
• Teachers refused to back down from their planned strike. 
• A new report revealed the details of the August Tapir attack at Dublin Zoo.
• This FG councillor called for a Portland-style cycling greenway in Dublin. 
• Loose pigs caused some trouble near Barack Obama Plaza.
• And we all prepared ourselves for the Late Late Toy Show.

WORLD

Cherrelle Welch at the Asda store in Wembley, north west London --- taking advantage of the store's Black Friday offers. [David Parry/PA]

#MASSACRE: 120 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in a suicide-bomb and gun attack at a mosque in Nigeria. 
#ARE YOU GOING TO THE SHOPS? People went crazy for Black Friday.
#RELAX: There are four Russian warships in the English Channel — but apparently it’s nothing to worry about.

INNOVATION

• Like “engaging with Shakespeare” … A UK report urges social media firms to simplify their terms and conditions. [BBC]
• And apparently ‘selfie sticks‘ are causing some problems in Japan. [Buzzfeed]

PARTING SHOT

Heading to the US on a ‘singles holiday’? Silly question, of course you are.

Anyway, this fascinating interactive map shows the ratio of single people in each American state.

Now who said stats were boring?