NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Crime boss Andy Connors was shot dead in Dublin.
- Hundreds turned out to protest Ireland’s 8th amendment on abortion. But Minister Flanagan doesn’t think there’s an appetite for a referendum.
- A 63-year-old man was charged in connection with a fatal stabbing at Dublin’s North Strand.
- There’s a huge difference between wealthy and poor areas when it comes to participation in third-level education.
- Dublin faired badly in a quality of life ranking, but Australia and Canada are top of the class.
- About 300 Limerick homes could be facing 18 months without drinking water.
- Masked men hijacked a lorry in Derry before loading a suspicious object into the back and ordering the driver to take it a police station.
- A man was arrested after a small dog was killed at the grounds of Clonliffe College in Dublin.
INTERNATIONAL
#JAMES FOLEY: US authorities have confirmed that the man beheaded in a video by the Islamic State group was missing journalist James Foley.
#RIP: BKS Iyenger, the Indian yoga guru is credited bringing the practice to the western world died aged 95.
#ICELAND: Tourists near the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland have been evacuated as the risk of eruption increases.
#US: The co-founder of the ice bucket challenge died in a diving accident in Nantucket.
INNOVATION
- You should take five minutes out of your time to activate the Find my Phone function. Really, you should.
- Samsung are to make the ”first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading” for US retailed Barnes & Noble. [BBC]
PARTING SHOT
Fidel Castro smoking a Cuban cigar with Nikita Khruschev, children playing with hyperinflated currency in Weimer Germany and IRA fighters in the 1970s. Here’s a collection of rare historical photos and the stories behind them.
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