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

Irish designer Louise Kennedy launched her Autumn Winter 2017 collection today Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

Gerry Adams at today's annual Sinn Féin away day meeting Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• Former RTÉ News presenter Don Cockburn died at the age of 87 after a short illness.
• Gerry Adams is to lay out a schedule for the future leadership of Sinn Féin at the party’s Ard Fheis in November.
• The family of Ava Twomey, a young girl who suffers from a rare form of epilepsy, have been separated so that Ava can access medicinal cannabis which is unavailable in Ireland.
• Health Minister Simon Harris said patients should not be used as “pawns” in a pay dispute between hospital staff. Last night a number of HSE doctors didn’t show up for work due to the dispute.
• Sinn Féin youngest councillor, Lisa Marie Sheehy, resigned over what she claims are bullying tactics used by some of her colleagues within the party.
• The families of two Irish women who died in an apartment fire in Leuven, Belguim three years ago have said they were satisfied with today’s guilty verdict.
• It was revealed that a total of 18 children were born into a homeless charity’s services last year.
• A piano will be permanently installed at Pearse Station in Dublin from Thursday for commuters to play while waiting for their train.
• Four Irish universities have ranked among the top 250 in the world.

WORLD

'London's highest running track' has been unveiled at a new tech site at the White Collar Factory, London. Victoria Jones Victoria Jones

#FLORIDA: The US state of Florida declared a state of emergency as Irma becomes an “extremely dangerous” Category Five hurricane.

#ROYAL FAMILY: Prince William and his wife Kate have been awarded more than €100,000 in damages over topless photos published of the duchess in 2012.

#GRENFELL: A woman was due to appear in court today charged with fraud after claiming her husband died in London’s Grenfell Tower fire.

#TRUMP: US president Donald Trump today began dismantling the government programme protecting hundreds of young immigrants, who were brought into the country illegally as children.

PARTING SHOT

Nintendo has announced that Mario has retired from being a plumber.

On the Japanese version of Nintendo’s website, character profiles for various people in Mario and Luigi’s universite have been added.

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The latest description of Mario states that the beloved video game character is no longer a plumber. Instead, it describes Mario as:

All around sporty, whether it’s tennis or baseball, soccer or car racing [Mario] does everything cool. As a matter of fact, he also seems to have worked as a plumber a long time ago…

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