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

IRELAND

• The Dublin-based neurosurgeon whose family were killed in a house fire in Leicester has said that he will “miss my beautiful wife and three beautiful children“.
• A house in Wexford is being examined after a nine-year-old girl and a woman in her 80s died in a fire.
• A Limerick teenager was held turned away from local detention centres and spent the night in Mid-Western Regional Hospital under garda escort.
• Gardaí are investigating after skeletal human remains were found in the Dublin Mountains.
• It was revealed that just three students had signed up for alcohol-free accommodation at UCC.
• The Reform Alliance held their first think-in, outlining some of the reforms they want to see.
• Two men shot dead in County Antrim last night were named as 61-year-old Arthur Gibson and 37-year-old Michael Murphy.
• Sign-in books for the Finance and Taoiseach’s departments from the weeks leading up to the bank guarantee were made public.
• Peter Mathews says that the Seanad “has brakes” and he “likes being in a car that has brakes“.
• The Burren in Co Clare was awarded a diploma which recognises the “European significance of the area”

INTERNATIONAL

A residential neighborhood and a connecting road in Lyons, Colo., are cut in two by flood waters as flooding continues to devastate the Front Range and thousands are forced to evacuate with an unconfirmed number of structures destroyed. (AP Photo/John Wark)

#SYRIA After two weeks of posturing, threatening and negotiating, the US and Russia have reached a deal on securing Syria’s chemical weapons.

#FLOODING At least four people have been confirmed dead as flooding spreads across the US state of Colorado. Over 80 people remain unaccounted for following flash floods.

#HOLY ROLLER The Pope has a new car. Pope Francis accepted the donation of a 1984 Renaul 4 from a Northern Italian priest. He plans to drive it around the Vatican.

INNOVATION

• After Apple unveiled the new range of iPhones have a fingerprint scanner, there was some concern that robbing fingers would become a trend. However,  one writer has moved to quell those fears. [CNet]
• NATO is funding research that would create a device capable of stopping suicide bombers and out of control drones. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Firefighters battle a blaze in a building on the Seaside Park boardwalk  in Seaside Park, N.J. The fire began in a frozen custard stand on the Seaside Park section of the boardwalk and quickly spread north into neighbouring Seaside Heights. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Almost 50 businesses have been charred in an area of New Jersey that was battered by Hurricane Sandy just 11 months ago.

The boardwalk at Seaside Park, NJ was engulfed in flames overnight. It is believed that the fire started near a frozen custard stand.

AP reports that “among the businesses destroyed were a fudge shop, fry stands and a bar and grill where Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi was punched in the face during filming of the first season of MTV’s “Jersey Shore.”

Here’s what happened yesterday