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

IRELAND

Polish artist NeSpoon pictured with her weblike artwork in the public plaza in Merchant’s Quay, Limerick. Alan Place Alan Place

• Horse Racing Ireland has appeared before the Agriculture Committee to defend allowing its CEO to stay in office for 20 years.
• The judge in the case of ex-Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick has sent the jury away for almost two weeks, urging them not to discuss the case.
• The Dáil returned, with AAA-PBP TD’s causing a stir by donning jumpers in support of repealing the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution.
• Investigations are underway after counterfeit bin bags were discovered in Dublin.
• Imprisoned Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa wrote a letter imagining what life would have been like had he not been sent to a Cairo prison.

WORLD

A man reads a newspaper carrying the headline in Spanish Agreement Signing in Cartagena, Colombia, Tuesday, 27 September, 2016, the day after the government signed a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, to end over 50 years of conflict. AP Photo / Ariana Cubillos AP Photo / Ariana Cubillos / Ariana Cubillos

#ENGALND: Sam Allardyce left his job as England manager after he was filmed giving advice on how to circumnavigate transfer rules by Daily Telegraph reporters posing as Far East businessmen.

#COLOMBIA: Colombia’s left FARC rebel force signed a historic peace accord with the government yesterday and apologised to the countless victims of the country’s half-century civil war.

#UNITED STATES: There was much debate about the debate as people tried to determine who had won between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

INNOVATION

• Take a look at how Boeing builds an entire 737 in just nine days (via Wired.com)
• The first baby was born in Mexico using a ’three parent’ fertility technique.

PARTING SHOT

So here is how Space X plans to send people to Mars:

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