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

IRELAND

Brenda Cummins, Judy Hopkins and Debbie Moloney at the World BBQ Championships in the People's Park in Limerick. Arthur Ellis Arthur Ellis

• A weather warning is in place as the tail end of Hurricane Ophelia heads towards Ireland.
• A new motorway linking Cork and Limerick has been officially given the go-ahead.
• Liquidators have been appointed to Charleville Credit Union in Co Cork.
• A Dublin man who claimed his late mother’s pension for 17 years after her death has been jailed for a year and a half.
• Regina Doherty is sticking by comments where she claimed absenteeism at Bus Éireann was an ”unofficial labour dispute”.
• Fianna Fáil’s Ard Fheis is beginning in Dublin, with leader Michaál Martin restating that Bertie Ahern will not be returning to the party.
• The Savoy Cinema’s owners have said they want to split the iconic Screen One into ‘three to five’ auditoriums.
• An attempt by Denis O’Brien to find out the identity of a person behind a dossier about him was denied by the Court of Appeal.

WORLD

Rory Dixon (left) and Daniel Gawish, both aged 7, collect pumpkins on the pumpkin patch at Arnprior Farm, Stirlingshire. Jane Barlow / PA Images Jane Barlow / PA Images / PA Images

#IRAN DEAL: US President Donald Trump has said that he can pull out of the landmark Iran nuclear deal “at any time” but stopped short of doing so today.

#WILDFIRES: The death toll has now risen to 31 in what are being described as the deadliest wildfire disaster in California’s history.

#EAST LONDON: Police in east London are appealing for information after a young woman was sexually assaulted three times in an hour walking home from a night out.

PARTING SHOT

In a week in which allegations of sexual harassment and rape against Harvey Weinstein became global news, Amy O’Connor argues that it’s not just Hollywood that needs to look at how it routinely ignores women.

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