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

Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

This was the front door of Aodhán Ó Riordáin’s office this morning. (Pic: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland) 

IRELAND

• Wicklow County Council voted for water charges to be scrapped.
• Research showed that paramilitaries abused 500 children in Northern Ireland since 1990.
• Dolores O’Riordan, from the Cranberries, was arrested off a flight after an alleged assault. She has now been released.
• Enda Kenny had some strong words about domestic violence.
• Families of Bloody Sunday victims have challenged a decision to delay an inquiry.
• The acting Garda Commissioner said no more stations will be closed.
• An Ebola test on a patient in Belfast who had been to Sierra Leone came back negative.
• Gardaí investigated an armed raid where three children were locked in a cupboard in their Dundalk home.
• UPC is to ban access to child sex abuse websites.
• Two people died in a fire in Meath.
• Former RTÉ broadcaster Brian Farrell passed away, aged 85.
• Where you are, and whatever time you’re reading this at, it’s probably raining.

WORLD

Fresh graffiti on the site where the mural entitled Art Buff created by street artist Banksy was situated before it was removed. Gareth Fuller Gareth Fuller

#MEXICO Protesters armed with machetes are not letting anybody in or out of Acapulco airport.

#PHILIPPINES An adult and three children were hacked to death on the southern island of Mindanao.

#HONG KONG The British man accused of killing two women in Hong Kong appeared in court today. He smiled for photographers as he left.

INNOVATION

• Eat your heart out NASA, these close-ups of a comet come from our own European Space Agency.
• Turned on your iPhone? It’s OK, Apple’s getting over it and will allow you to deregister iMessage. 

PARTING SHOT

Television studios have been casting ridiculously old actors to play High School students since, well, 90210. Buzzfeed shows us how ridiculous it all is. 

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