Raglan Road, Dublin, this afternoon Kate Kavanagh Kate Kavanagh

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

IRELAND

Annie Dunne, the Tipperary woman injured in a freak farming accident in Australia Facebook Facebook

• An Irish woman is in hospital in Australia with serious head injuries after her hair became trapped in a conveyor belt on a farm
• A man has died after being struck by a lorry on the M50
• Denis O’Brien is to purchase one of the Russborough House paintings for €2.5 million and gift it to the Irish state
• A complaint has been upheld against Guinness after a Facebook post implied it has therapeutic qualities
• Just 5,000 homes remain without power thanks to ESB repair crews, as Storm Barney begins to wind down
• Fianna Fáil TD Robert Troy was caught using the f-word in the Dáil
• Willie O’Dea has a radical plan to abolish social welfare
• The Fennelly Commission into the taping of Garda phone calls has formally asked for an extension of its deadline to September next year
• A man has been jailed for 16 months after defecating in a Garda station in the middle of being interviewed
• The Advertising Standards Authority has banned an ad for Denny smoked ham which claimed it would “get your taste buds happier than a tornado in a trailer park”
• A man is in a critical condition in hospital after an explosion at a Cork industrial estate

INTERNATIONAL

An undated image which claims to show the bomb used to blow up a Russian passenger jet over Egypt killing 224 people AP AP

#PARIS: Two people have been killed and eight arrested after French police stormed a complex in the suburb of Saint Denis in the hunt for Isis ‘mastermind’ Abdelhamid Abaaoud

#EGYPT: A photo has emerged of the bomb that was used to take down a Russian plane killing 224 people

#SYRIA: The father of one of the suicide bomber’s involved in last Friday night’s Paris attacks travelled to Syria to try and bring his son home from an Isis camp last year

#LONDON: Armed police evacuated a tube station after reports emerged of a man threatening commuters with scissors

INNOVATION

• Sky has big plans to take over your entire life, not just your living room (TheJournal.ie)
• Drinking coffee can lead to a longer and healthier life. We knew it (Geek)

PARTING SHOT

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