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

IRELAND

Ursula Giltenen wears shades at the National Ploughing Championships in Tullamore, Co Offaly.

• Gardaí are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains that washed up on the seashore in Co Clare this afternoon.
• The government is considering sending its private jet to bring Ibrahim Halawa home from Egypt.
• President Higgins said he’s “not ruling anything out” when asked if he’d run for a second term in office.
• The father of two who was shot dead in Dublin last night has been named locally as John Gibson.
• There’s outrage over the decision to exclude any housing units from a development in Limerick city.
• Sinn Féin has expelled three Wicklow councillors following an unresolved row on the county council.
• The government has pledged to take on landlords who are trying to ‘get around’ rent control rules
• Gardaí have said a fire in Dublin which led to the hospitalisation of four people is being treated as suspicious.
• Plans to regenerate the last Georgian mansion built in Dublin have been approved despite opposition.

INTERNATIONAL

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York. Li Muzi / PA Images Li Muzi / PA Images / PA Images

#ROCKET MAN: US President Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that the United States may have “no choice but to totally destroy North Korea”.

#YOU GOTTA SEE HER: Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a “potentially catastrophic” category 5 storm in the Caribbean as it approaches islands already devastated by hurricane season.

#ROHINGYA CRISIS: Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has spoken for the first time about the allegations of ethnic cleansing in her country.

PARTING SHOT

He’s responsible for the “most lethal automatic weapon ever” and now there’s a statue erected in his honour. Moscow today unveilved a statue to AK-47 designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, showing the former tank commander clutching the iconic weapon which bears his name.

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