NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Taoiseach Enda Kenny took the blame for ‘McNulty-gate’
- A nurse doesn’t remember telling Michael Kivlehan to stop ‘eavesdropping’
- The €86m EuroMillions jackpot was collected today. (By you, any chance?)
- Brian Cowen will sleep rough tonight - for charity.
- Residents at a Direct Provision Centre in Cork spoke out about their situation.
- Helen O’Driscoll says she forgives the eldest son who killed his twin brothers.
- Three people are due in court over an €80 million cocaine seizure on a yacht.
- Are taxpayers the losers in the latest bank bailout developments?
- Asylum applications rose by 26% in the first six months of this year.
- Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said Europeans joining Islamist State group is a ‘serious problem’.
- UK authorities have been urged to launch a criminal investigation into the murder of a Northern Irish journalist.
INTERNATIONAL
#BRITAIN British MPs voted to join air strikes on Islamic State.
#VATICAN Pope Francis fired a bishop who promoted a priest accused of sexual abuse.
#NORTH KOREA Leader Kim Jong-un hasn’t been seen in public since 3 September and speculation abounds as to why.
#SIERRA LEONE The Sierra Leone president says that Ebola is “worse than terrorism”.
#UK DJ Dave Lee Travis was given a three-month suspended sentence for an indecent assault.
INNOVATION
- You’ll soon be able to buy directly from Facebook, using a ‘buy’ button that’s powered by Stripe. [TheJournal.ie]
- So, what IS the iPhone 6 like, then? We’ve taken a look at it, and this is what we’ve found. [TheJournal.ie]
PARTING SHOT
Watch drones dance with Cirque du Soleil… no seriously. Here’s a fantastical video that sees flying lampshades come alive. [TIME]
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