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

Virgin Group founder Richard Branson lifts presenter Sinéad Kennedy at the RDS during the announcement that UPC Ireland is to become Virgin Media. Brian Lawless / PA Wire/Press Association Images Brian Lawless / PA Wire/Press Association Images / PA Wire/Press Association Images

IRELAND

• Volkswagen is to recall 80,000 cars sold in Ireland following revelations of emissions cheating.
• The Public Accounts Committee discussed allegations by Mick Wallace TD about the sale of Nama’s Northern Ireland property portfolio.
• Former Labour Party leader Eamon Gilmore has been appointed EU envoy for the peace process in Colombia.
• A man arrested following the death of a man in Celbridge on Tuesday was released without charge.
• Concerns were raised over the closure of a women’s refuge in Tallaght.
• Sentences of between five and 16 years were handed down to a gang of men who carried out a terrifying raid on a Tipperary family.
• A new Hiqa report has identified a high risk of contracting Legionnaires’ Disease at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. (RTÉ)
• Officials said funding will be provided to help carry out required works on unsafe apartments at Longboat Quay in Dublin.
• The parents of a Limerick man who died following a domestic incident in North Carolina in August said his wife is “exacerbating” their loss.
• Richard Branson announced the official rebranding of UPC Ireland as Virgin Media.

WORLD

Police search students outside Umpqua Community College in Oregon. AP AP

#US: At least 13 people were killed in a shooting at a community college in Oregon.

#CANADA: The wife of the accused in a court case claimed her husband is linked to a missing person’s case in Ireland dating back to the 1990s.

#DONALD TRUMP: The US presidential candidate said he will send home all Syrian refugees relocated to the country if elected.

INNOVATION

• There was criticism of a new app that allows users to review people they know. (BBC)
• Nasa confirmed the names of the planets being considered for its next round of space exploration. (Gizmodo)

PARTING SHOT

The cover star of the latest Italian Vogue is… an 18-year-old from Ennis, Co Clare. Aidan Walsh is a trained ballet dancer, and clearly an up-and-coming model to boot. (Clare Herald)

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