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

IRELAND

Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Thousands of people attended the fourth annual pro-choice march in Dublin city today.
• Dublin Simon is warning that more homeless people could die as winter sets in after the death of a homeless man at Dawson Lane yesterday morning.
• A car went on fire outside O’Connell Bridge House on Burgh Quay in Dublin city centre.
• Gardaí arrested drivers at a mandatory alcohol testing, MAT, checkpoint on the M1 this morning.
• TD Éamonn Maloney has stepped down from the Labour party, saying he will instead run as an Independent candidate.
• An extra 30,000 viewers tuned into Winning Streak last week to see well-known criminal Edward Hutch appear on the show.
• A 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of shining a laser light at a police helicopter.
• Paul O’Connell’s mother won a competition for tickets to see Ireland take on France in the Rugby World Cup.

INTERNATIONAL

Associated Press Associated Press

#DEADLY STAMPEDE: Thursday’s stampede was one of the world’s deadliest for more than a decade but the hajj has been plagued by disaster for the past 40 years.

#REFUGEE FAMILY: From despair to euphoria and back: Life for a Syrian refugee family in Germany.

#TONGUE TWISTER: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwll-llantysiliogogogoch is only the second-longest place name in the world.

INNOVATION

• Here’s how to get rid of those annoying startup programmes on your PC.
• There’s a handy way to mute any calls you get on your iPhone.
• Here are nine features you probably didn’t know exist in WhatsApp.

PARTING SHOT 

It’s Saturday evening so just relax and check out this spectacular photo taken by Mark Hayden at Glendalough at 8am this morning:

Mark Hayden Mark Hayden

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