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

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IRELAND

• €80million worth of cocaine was seized in a yacht off the Cork coast.
• The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission released its report into the source of the ‘bugging’ claims.
• A hospital failed in ‘error’ to look at a new mother’s blood test for 12 hours, an inquest was told.
• A man appeared in court after a creche worker was stabbed.
• Up to 300 GPs protested against the ‘crisis’ they are facing.
• More than 360,000 people are on hospital waiting lists, new figures show.
• A man was arrested after threatening an Irish Water worker with an ‘imitation’ gun.
• Twink’s dog was found and a man was arrested in connection with the dog-napping.
• A 71-year-old woman was injured after being knocked off her bicycle in a hit and run.
• The DUP’s Peter Robinson isn’t leaving, he said – despite claims to the contrary.
• The architect of the Children’s Hospital says the project won’t be a problem.
• A man accused of sexual assault on the grounds of UCD was remanded in custody.
• An elderly man was killed in a car crash in Offaly.
• A man found dead in a Galway woods eight years ago has been identified.
• Fine Gael members are angry about the appointment of John McNulty to a State board. Here’s why.

INTERNATIONAL

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#ALGERIA A French man was beheaded, according to a video from an Islamic State-linked group.

#UK Prime Minister David Cameron has recalled British parliament to vote on joining air strikes in Iraq.

#USA The war against Islamic State is “not America’s fight alone”, Obama said.

#SPAIN A woman was sent to jail for 35 years for killing her two newborn babies.

#INDIA India has become the first country to enter Mars on its first attempt.

INNOVATION

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• A little bit of Limerick is now on the International Space Station. Seriously. [TheJournal.ie]
• Itching for a new phone that’s not an iPhone? Samsung has released its Note 4 ahead of schedule. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

Ever hear of pawpaw French? It’s a dialect that flourished in an isolated mining region of the Ozarks. But it’s in danger of dying out. [NPR]

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