Updated 23.00pm
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRISH
- A man is in custody after two bodies were discovered in a Donegal house.
- Gardaí are investigating Positive Action‘s expenses.
- A boy who was severely brain damaged before birth was awarded an interim settlement of over €2 million.
- A former leading IRA member sparked fresh controversy in the Maíria Cahill scandal by sharing a blog post about the alleged abuse.
- Tesco‘s sales figures plummeted.
- A local council are considering installing lights in park where a woman was assaulted.
- UTV jobs are in the balance after Newstalk announced it’s taking over the broadcaster’s radio network service.
- Leo Varadkar thinks a few things in the health service have improved.
- Irish lads used a Times Square billboard to share their anti-water charges message with Enda Kenny, while these guys were outside Leinster House protesting with pots and pans.
- The Education Minister had a “tough and frank” discussion with Waterford IT.
- Thieves stole a digger to steal an ATM before setting it on fire.
- ‘Photobomb’ and ‘bakeoff’ were added to the latest edition of Collins Dictionary.
INTERNATIONAL
#CANADA: The Sergeant-at-Arms who shot the Canadian gunman got a standing ovation in Parliament.
#US: A man who jumped the White House fence has been charged with kicking two police dogs.
#ITALY: Two men who engaged in a “long and passionate” kiss during a demonstration have been charged with breach of the peace.
#GERMANY: The teenage girls that were stopped at German airport over suspicions they were joining the Islamic State group say they were promised good homes and husbands.
INNOVATION
- This designer has come up with a way to get rid of streets lights that illuminate roads. [Washington Post]
- When the biggest shark known to science went extinct it may have triggered whales to grow to their current hefty sizes. [BBC]
PARTING SHOT
If you think your Halloween costume is going to be scary this year, take a look at these terrifying Halloween outfits from long ago. [Huffington Post]
First published 9pm
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