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IRELAND
Rocco Finnegan (7) pictured with Mrs Claus and Nicky Byrne as Children’s Health Foundation and Children’s Health Ireland ‘Save a Smile’ by lighting up CHI Crumlin for Christmas Andres Poveda
Andres Poveda
INTERNATIONAL
Macron and Zelenskyy during a press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris Alamy Stock Photo
Alamy Stock Photo
#FLOODING: Sri Lank and Indonesia have deployed military personnel today to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people across four countries in Asia in recent days.
#UKRAINE: Zelenskyy spoke optimistically about revising the Trump administration’s peace plan ahead of his trip to Dublin, saying “it looks better” and the work will continue during talks on how to end Russia’s nearly four-year war.
#FORMER PRINCE: Britain’s King Charles officially stripped his brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor of his last remaining titles, the Order of the Garter and Royal Victorian Order honours.
PARTING SHOT
Shelf of Oxford English Dictionaries Alamy Stock Photo
Alamy Stock Photo
Oxford University Press, the maker of the Oxford English Dictionary, has announced its Word of the Year for 2025.
The word, which is actually two words, is defined as online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media account.
The Oxford Word of the Year can be a singular word or expression, which the publisher’s lexicographers think of as a single unit of meaning.
Rage bait is a compound of the words rage, meaning a violent outburst of anger, and bait, an attractive morsel of food.
