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

Gardaí at the scene of a house fire in Rhode, Co. Offally, where a 24-year-old man was seriously injured. Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Ireland could take in 5,000 refugees – and they won’t have to go through the Direct Provision system.
• A man is in critical condition after he was stabbed and his house was set on fire in Offaly.
• Housing list figures released by Fianna Fáil show there may be more people waiting than the government claims.
• Two men were killed in separate road crashes in Donegal and Mayo.
• Irish farmers were among a group of 6,000 who faced off with police in a protest in Brussels.
• 40 Irish bankers earned €1 million or more in 2013.
• David Norris is suing comedian Al Porter over a joke he made two years ago.
• A Labour minister won an €18,000 car in a raffle and immediately gave it back.

WORLD

Young refugees with plush toys in their hand arrive at the main train station in Munich, Germany. Kerstin Joensson / PA Kerstin Joensson / PA / PA

#GERMANY: There were tears of joy at train stations all over Germany as locals gave refugees a warm welcome.

#ISLAMIC STATE: David Cameron revealed British forces used a drone strike in Syria last month to kill two British citizens.

#CHICAGO: The search continued for the remains of a toddler after dismembered body parts were found in a park.

#CHARGES: Former Dragons’ Den star Douglas Richard is accused of sexual activity with a 13-year-old girl.

INNOVATION

• This porn app took secret photos of users.
• Canon has unveiled an absurdly powerful image sensor.
• Scientists in the US created a vomit machine to help study the transmission of the norovirus. [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

This incredible video shows an F-22 Raptor refuelling mid-air over the Florida coast.

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