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

IRELAND

Torrential rain flooded the Ploughing Championships in Offaly today. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Broadcasting legend Jimmy Magee died at the age of 82.
• Gardaí in Blanchardstown seized a handgun, ammunition and €30,000 of cannabis and cocaine.
• It was announced that charges against the rest of the Jobstown protesters due to face trial are to be dropped.
• There was a minute’s silence at the Ploughing Championships for a man who died at his Wexford farm yesterday.
• Gardaí said they are now treating the deaths of Barbara Doyle and her two 8-year-old nieces 30 years ago as murder.
• UCD’s Student Union president Katie Ascough defended her decision to remove a page about access to abortion from a magazine handed out to new students.
• A Dublin man was in court charged with possession of child pornography.
• A 49-year-old man died in a motorbike accident in Wicklow.

WORLD

Rescue workers remove rubble as they search for people trapped inside a collapsed building in the Del Valle area of Mexico following an earthquake. Rebecca Blackwell / PA Rebecca Blackwell / PA / PA

#RAGING BULL: The boxer who inspired the Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull died aged 95

#CATALAN: Spanish police arrested 13 Catalan government officials in a crackdown on preparations for an independence referendum in the region which Madrid says is illegal.

#UN: Iran has condemned Donald Trump and described his UN address as “ignorant hate speech”.

PARTING SHOT

You might have seen a load of men and women walking about today in wedding dresses and wondered what in the howiya was going on.

Well, as part of Today FM’s Dare to Care campaign, the station announced that today (20 September) would be Wedding Dress Wednesday, the DailyEdge reports.

If you’d like to donate €4 of your phone credit towards the Irish Cancer Society, you can do so by texting ‘Dare’ to 50300.

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