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

IRISH

Keith Hall, who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Melanie McCarthy, being led away. PA Archive / PA Images PA Archive / PA Images / PA Images

• Melanie McCarthy McNamara’s killer is to spend most of his 18 year sentence in protective custody
• An Irish woman with Cystic Fibrosis opens up about the drug which saved her life
• Assistance dogs for children with autism were made available again after a three year absence
• We got inside the eerie Hellfire Club in Dublin and asked archaeologists about its past.
• Over 400 new resource teachers for children with special needs were announced
• TG4 celebrated its 20th birthday and we found out some of the strangest places people watch its programming
• Irish researchers discovered a potential new way to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer
• A Limerick court heard how a man told gardaí he was sorry after he was charged with sexual assault
• A telegraph from the Lusitania was brought to shore 100 years after it sank
• A young mother was attacked by a group of men during a robbery in her apartment
• Dublin Fire Brigade received over 100 callouts in the space of six hours

WORLD

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally. Evan Vucci / PA Evan Vucci / PA / PA

#TRUMP: The presidential hopeful was on the attack again claiming the USA would fall into crisis if Clinton was elected

#TURKEY: There has been outrage in Turkey after an editor of an anti-government newspaper was arrested

#MOROCCO: Thousands attend fishmonger’s funeral following gruesome death

#SYRIA: Nearly 50 civilians, 17 of them children, have been killed in Aleppo since Friday

#UK: Man jailed for 10 years following fatal crash which killed four members of the same family

INNOVATION

• Just weeks after the new iPhone was unveiled, there’s already talk about the next model. {Techradar}

PARTING SHOT

For the day that’s in it, here’s a giant spider which was spotted creeping out of the sea in Kenmare, Kerry.
Thanks to Adrian for sending it our way.

Enough to give you the creeps!

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