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

IRELAND

Some 200 new electric vehicle charging points will be rolled out at 50 council-owned sites across Dublin at the beginning of next year. Shane O’Neill Shane O’Neill

• The Irish Defence Forces chief said he believes an Israeli attack on UN peacekeeping tower in Lebanon was ‘not an accidental act’
• A man appeared in court in connection with the murder of Mary Ward in Belfast last week
• The family of Private Seán Rooney are ‘frustrated’ over lack of help from UN, an inquest heard
• Interpol said Ireland’s ‘most wanted’ fugitive Sean McGovern will be held in UAE pending extradition
• The Tánaiste played down reports of a possible election date by another Fianna Fáil Minister
• A man appeared in court accused of deliberately ‘ramming’ Áras an Uachtaráin gates
• Patricia Ryan TD said she quit Sinn Féin after the party asked her to …