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

IRELAND

The damaged tourist bus that collided with a tram at Smithfield Luas stop this afternoon Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Eight people have been injured after a tourist bus crashed into a Luas tram in Dublin
• A man has escaped an assassination attempt by a gunman in north County Dublin this evening
• A court in Limerick has heard that a woman pleaded with burglars to help resuscitate her brother
• Tayto Park’s House of Horrors has re-opened after an accident last week left a number of people injured
• An ex-fireman who had sex with a transition year pupil has had his sentence cut to two years
• The government and gardaí have agreed to use state negotiators on an ‘ad hoc basis’
• A woman who slipped on human faeces at a hospital has been awarded €16,000 in court
• A Galway judge is handing out driving bans to motorists who fail to turn up to court for parking offences
• A controversy has broken out over an €8.5 million price tag placed on Mary Robinson’s presidential library

INTERNATIONAL 

Hillary Clinton speaking at a rally in Cedar RApids, Iowa, this evening Andrew Harnik Andrew Harnik

#US: The FBI is re-opening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails

#AUSTRALIA: A bus driver has burnt to death after being set on fire by a passenger

#SCOTLAND: Fighter jets escorted a plane to a Scottish airport today after its communications failed

INNOVATION

• The ‘male pill’ could be on its way in jab form. And by all accounts it works a treat
• Google’s artificial intelligence has created its own form of encryption. The machines are becoming sentient, people [Engadget]

PARTING SHOT 

We’ve heard of edgy Halloween costumes, but this just might take the biscuit: a Queens, New York, Burger King restaurant has dressed up as a McDonalds for the weekend that’s in it.

But will they be selling Big Macs rather than Whoppers? Just how far will their commitment go? Will we ever know?

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