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

An armed garda at the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre this evening. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Armed gardaí evacuated the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre in Dublin in a security incident.
• The first of five Irish Rail strike days took place.
• A report into the breath test scandal found gardaí falsified an additional 400,000 tests.
• A Tusla worker’s phone was used to send death threats to a journalist.
• Two people were killed in a car crash in Wexford.
• Sinn Féin and the DUP failed to reach a deal to form an executive in Northern Ireland.
• Former senior Anglo banker Tiarnan O’Mahony was cleared of all charges.
• Gardaí are investigating a video which appears to show a child being encouraged to drink alcohol.
• Dublin Fire Brigade dealt with more than 1,000 calls on Halloween night.

Flowers were laid on the ground after the terrorist act with a pick-up truck next to a barrier near the crime scene in New York. Christina Horsten / PA Christina Horsten / PA / PA

WORLD

#RESIGNATION: The UK’s Defence Secretary has quit, citing past behaviour which may have “fallen short”.

#NEW YORK: Police say the man who killed eight people in the city yesterday was radicalised domestically.

#JAPAN: A serial killer who kept nine bodies in coolers met the victims through Twitter, it has emerged.

#HOLLYWOOD: Dustin Hoffman has been accused of sexually harassing a teenage intern in the 1980s.

PARTING SHOT

Mark Broderick and his drone shot these beautiful scenes over Lough Dan in Co Wicklow.

Mark Broderick / Vimeo

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