December 15: Today’s top stories in 60 seconds

Father and son treated in hospital after shooting on Wicklow building site, gardaí believe man (44) was intended target
A father and son were being treated in hospital last night after they were injured in a targeted gun attack in Co Wicklow yesterday evening. Gardaí believe that the 44-year-old father was the attempted target of the gun attack and his teenage son was assaulted when he attempted to defend his father. The incident happened at a building site at a housing development in Delgany, Co Wicklow and gardaí believe the shooting was ordered by gangland criminals based in Bray.
Independent.ie

New supercomputer allowing ‘better, more frequent forecasts’ to start operating this spring
A new supercomputer based in Iceland should enable Met Éireann to deliver more accurate forecasts at a higher frequency from the spring of 2024, according to the agency’s head forecaster in an interview with The Journal. Met Éireann, along with meteorological agencies in three other countries, is almost ready to start operating a supercomputer acquired in 2021 after months of testing and preparing the machine to create highly up-to-date weather predictions. It’s expected that the machine will carry out 4,000 trillion calculations per second and handle millions of weather observations per day.
The Journal

HSE warns parents to cocoon new babies as respiratory illnesses run rampant
The HSE has issued a stark warning to parents to cocoon new babies as it battles to tackle “extraordinarily high” levels of RSV and flu across the country. There were 829 new cases of RSV and 283 of flu last week. That was the highest weekly RSV count ever. There was also the highest ever number (335) of people hospitalised with the virus. The HSE also said last week saw a 60% increase in the number of confirmed flu cases and a doubling of the number of patients (97) who required admission to hospital due to flu.
The Irish Examiner

New arrivals sleeping on streets: ‘Where do we go?’
Newly-arrived asylum seekers say they were given sleeping bags, but were not provided with any tents after being told there is no State-provided accommodation for them. The latest figures from the Department of Integration show there are 147 recently arrived International Protection Applicants in Ireland who were told there was no bed for them. The Government ceased offering beds to all male International Protection Applicants on 4 December, citing a severe shortage of accommodation.
RTÉ

Irish dancing body investigated alleged ‘adjudicator corruption’ three years before feis-fixing claims
The world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish dancing investigated three cases of alleged “adjudicator corruption” three years before allegations of widespread cheating were reported to the organisation. In July 2022, a dossier purportedly showing evidence of extensive competition fixing was handed in to An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG). The allegations were related to a competition taking place in 2019 but were only submitted to the body in 2022 and later leaked online.
The Irish Times

Today’s forecast
Mostly cloudy today with a little light rain, drizzle and mist at times, but plenty of dry weather overall. Relatively mild; with highest temperatures of 10 to 13 degrees, in mostly light to moderate south to southwest winds, freshening a little later and increasing strong at times in some coastal parts of the north and west. Mostly cloudy and becoming breezier and while there’ll be a lot of dry weather, there’ll be a little light rain or drizzle mainly in the west and north. Little change from daytime temperatures, with lows of 7 to 11 degrees, in moderate to fresh south to southwest winds, stronger in coastal parts of the west and north.
Met Éireann