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

IRELAND

Pictured (from yellow cape Center LTOR) Lily Mae Morrison from Galway , Renee Hayes from Cork, Niamh Richards and Danny Curran from Dublin and all from Light It Up Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness who pour water over (Center) Lord Mayor for Dublin Christy Burke takes up the Ice Bucket Challenge for Light It Up Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness outside the Mansion House in Dublin this afternoon. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• Gardaí began a search for three men in connection with a sex attack in Dublin
• The HSE confirmed that a “very, very small” number of people had been tested for Ebola in Ireland
• Unemployment fell, but the Jobs Minister said it’s not the time for wage hikes
• Passers-by pushed a Luas off the trapped leg of a young girl
• Students were warned of a property scam that was targeting them
• Politicians took the ice bucket challenge
• It was revealed that Irish women who had fatal foetal anomalies were being put on waiting lists at UK hospitals
• A councillor hit out at vandals who caused a bus to divert away from Clondalkin, stranding older people
• A Limerick company may have found $10 billion worth of oil in Tunisia
• The CSO revealed that 40,700 people emigrated in the year to April 2014
• The favourite for the Dublin South West By-Election put his hat back in the ring after withdrawing in June

INTERNATIONAL

A Palestinian family flashes victory signs as they celebrate the cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis at the main road in Gaza. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#GAZA: Israel agreed to an “unlimited” truce with Gaza. The deal will see border crossings opened immediately to allow rebuilding materials and humanitarian aid.

#JAMES FOLEY: The killer of US journalist James Foley was reported to be a rapper from London. Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, aka L Jinny, left his well-off London home last year.

#ROTHERHAM: An investigation showed that at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited in the UK town of Rotherham in 16 years, due to a “collective failure” by authorities.

INNOVATION

• Instagram’s new app makes timelapses really easy to produce.
• Google Image Search suffered a pretty weird glitch earlier.

PARTING SHOT

Could eating like our ancestors make us healthier? This is a beautifully put together feature by National Geographic which examines that idea.

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