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

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny has promised action on Priory Hall.
• TDs and Senators have let rip at Bank of Ireland boss Richie Boucher.
• Ulster Bank has begun legal action against 4,000 homeowners in arrears.
• The deployment of Irish troops to Syria has been delayed.
• The family of Michael Dwyer has called for an investigation into his death.
• The number of people on the Live Register is down.
• One prisoner and two officers were hurt when a prison van overturned on a motorway.
• Ryanair has issued a profit warning.
• Questions are being asked about the Irish Times’ Holles Street abortion story.
• Lawyers for an Irish nanny accused of murder want the case to be dropped.
• David McCullagh is the new presenter of RTE’s Prime Time programme.
• Christmas jumpers are for sale already in Penneys…

INTERNATIONAL

(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

#OHIO: Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro was found dead in his prison cell.

#SYRIA: Barack Obama says he will not repeat the mistakes made in Iraq when it comes to Syria.

#GOLDEN DAWN: A judge has thrown out a pivotal anti-racism case brought by neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in Greece.

INNOVATION

• Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy smartwatch which runs apps and makes calls. [BBC]
• An app store for Google Glass is coming next year [Mashable]
• Speaking of Google: today is the internet behemoth’s 15th birthday. Here’s some things you may not have known about it.[Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Music blogger Nialler9 and photographer Mark Duggan have created this striking roundup of Electric Picnic using 60 or so animated gifs. We can’t stop looking at it. [Nialler9]

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