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

IRISH 

Yann Le Jall surfing in Kerry earlier today fusionshooters fusionshooters

• Mary Lou McDonald has said that Sinn Féin members – and not the IRA – will pick the party’s next leader. 
• The mother of a four-year-old boy killed by a drunk driver has said her whole life was shattered by the crash. 
• Green activists have won a victory over an Offaly peat-burning power plant. 
• Lonely Planet has named Dublin as the third best city to visit in the world in 2016. 
• A man who made a prank phone call pretending to be from Islamic State to get his friend out of work has appeared in court. 
• A nine-year-old Dublin girl has been awarded €40,000 after her fingers were severed in the doors of a Dublin pharmacy. 
• Alan Kelly has referred to himself in the third person and hit out at ‘anonymous cowards’.
• A 15-year-old from Co Antrim arrested in connection with the theft of data from UK phone company TalkTalk has been released on bail. 

INTERNATIONAL 

A Pakistani soldier carrying an injured child after today's deadly earthquake AP Photo / Mohammad Sajjad AP Photo / Mohammad Sajjad / Mohammad Sajjad

#BIRMINGHAM: Two policemen who described a woman as a ‘fucking slag’ will keep their jobs.  

#UK: MPs in the United Kingdom have voted against a measure aimed at removing VAT on tampons.

#SOUTH ASIA: More than 300 people have been killed by an earthquake in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

INNOVATION 

• It looks like roaming charges across the EU will finally be abolished by 2017. 
• Vodafone, Three and Meteor are set to appear before the Oireachtas communications committee over their coverage. 

PARTING SHOT 

Are your social media accounts filled with pictures of you out on the tear? The Daily Dot has taken a look at just how wise an idea it is. [The Daily Dot]

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