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Family flowers on the coffin of Seamus Heaney. (Liam McBurney/PA Wire)

IRELAND

• Junior doctors voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action.
• Seamus Heaney’s funeral took place in Dublin.
• An Irish producer being held by Egyptian police was released.
• Bord Gáis prices are set to rise from next month.
• Ivan Yates has been speaking about his bankruptcy.
• Car sales went up in August.
• Poor people are 70 per cent more likely to get types of cancer.
• Sean O’Rourke and Pat Kenny went head to head for the first time.
• Diarmuid Martin dismissed suggestions he’s moving to the Vatican.
• A man pulled a knife on gardaí at a Dublin post office this morning.
• Dublin city’s newest bridge has been named.

INTERNATIONAL

(Dave Thompson/PA Wire)

#SYRIA: A French intelligence report says the Syrian regime was solely responsible for a deadly chemical weapons attack.

#MEGA BUCKS: Vodafone has sold its stake in US company Verizon for $130 billion.

#TRIAL: Coronation Street actor Michael Le Vell appeared in court facing charges of rape and indecent assault of a child.

#INVESTIGATION: A 1-year-old baby in a buggy was shot dead in New York City.

INNOVATION

• They’re looking increasingly more likely – so here’s what Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft are doing about smartwatches. [Guardian]
• Two Danish architects have come up with this insane/practical/imaginative concept for narrow apartments to fill the tiny gaps between existing buildings. [Dezeen]
• A Facebook flaw allowed hackers to delete posted photos [CNET]

PARTING SHOT

Ancient Romans used nanotechnology to make a colour-change goblet. Seriously. [Usvsth3m]

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