Irish Independent : Irish News

• ‘Rathkeale is in mourning’ – gardaí appeal for information following death of young mother in Limerick hit-and-run
• ‘Holyhead closure is a challenge we’ve never faced before’: Alternative sailings to get people home for Christmas continue despite high winds
• ‘For this to be delivered Christmas week makes it more upsetting’ – pensioner fighting to keep his log cabin home is told appeal was unsuccessful
• Man (40s) seriously injured in Dublin hit-and-run as gardaí appeal for witnesses
• ‘It’s almost like a flash mob’ – RTÉ’s Joe Duffy on annual Christmas Eve radio special broadcast from Grafton Street
• Sunshine and cocktails – where will the cruise ship that was stuck in Belfast for four months be on Christmas Day?

Irish Times Feeds News Feed

• Man (30s) charged in relation to seizure of drugs worth €185,000 in Cork
• Bethlehem now ‘a Palestinian village subjected to intense intimidation, social starvation’, say church leaders
• Independents as the third part of new government ‘not inevitable’, says Social Democrats acting leader
• Media regulator seeks consultant to review adequacy of public funding for RTÉ and TG4
• Dozens of extra gardaí assigned to Rathkeale after mother killed in hit-and-run incident
• Taxpayers are subsidising private schools by more than €140m a year