NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- A woman was arrested during protests outside Leinster House.
- A second man was arrested after shots were fired at a Limerick house.
- Gardaí in Cork are searching for a man who flashed two teenage girls.
- Nurses protested at a Galway hospital as they said it was “overcrowded and understaffed”.
- Super Junior Minister Ged Nash told us he’s leaning towards Scotland staying in the UK.
- The Taoiseach was questioned on Irish Water and PPS numbers. Here’s what he said.
- Deputy Alan Shatter said he wants the GSOC commissioners to be sacked over the ‘bugging scandal’.
- Lucinda Creighton says she’s joined the Dáil Technical Group… but there’s confusion over the issue.
- It’s official: The Dublin South West and Roscommon-South Leitrim by-elections will take place on 10 October.
- Here are the latest dispatches from our Family Courts Series.
INTERNATIONAL
#SCOTLAND Polls on the eve of the Scottish referendum suggest the pro-union vote will clinch it.
#WEST AFRICA Barack Obama says the Ebola crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’.
#THAILAND After two tourists were murdered, the Thai Prime Minister questioned whether ‘tourists in bikinis’ are safe.
#USA Social media helped the police to find the suspects in a homophobic attack.
#FLORIDA Two Irishmen were critically injured after a private plane hit a tree.
#GERMANY A 93-year-old man has been charged in Germany with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz.
INNOVATION
- Finally - iCloud has been given an extra layer of security after the celebrity nude photo scandal. [TheJournal.ie]
- Speaking of Apple, the iOS 8 update is out now. [TheJournal.ie]
- Are you a gamer? More women than men play games in the UK. [The Guardian]
PARTING SHOT
Domestic violence in the USA is in the global news at the moment after an NFL player – Ray Rice – assaulted his then-fiancée. This video from Vox shows this is not an issue that needs to be swept under the carpet. [Vox]
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