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

Superintendent David Taylor holds up a photo of the child found by Gardaí on O’Connell Street in Dublin on 10 October as an investigation continues to identify her. Pic: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

IRISH

• There will be a referendum on same-sex marriage in 2015 with the Government proposing to hold a number of other referendums on the same day.
• Gardaí have identified the teenage girl found in a distressed state outside the GPO in Dublin last month.
• After days of speculation, Martin O’Nell was confirmed as the new manager of the Republic of Ireland football team with Roy Keane named as his assistant.
• Payments to survivors of the Magdalene Laundries will begin in the next four to six weeks.
• The leaders of the three main political parties all joined in a request for information on “The Disappeared” in Northern Ireland to be brought forward after a new documentary.
• Aer Lingus and trade union IMPACT are to meet with the Labour Relations Commission over job losses at Shannon Airport.
• Justice Minister Alan Shatter is to appoint a Senior Counsel to review a garda report into the violent death of Fr Niall Molloy in 1985.
• African children in Ireland  20 times more likely than average to be subject to care orders.
• Over 300 new jobs were announced for Dublin by a number of different companies with 218 jobs supported by the Dublin Business Innovation Centre.
• 38,000 SuperValu customers were found by the company to be at risk of a data breach.
• Finance Minister Michael Noonan met with members of the Eurogroup today and said that a decision on a post-bailout credit line was ‘finely balanced’.
• A “UCC Bird of The Day” Facebook page with pictures of female students was closed down following complaints.
• The former Mayor of Naas, who was forced to resign after comments he made about black Africans, has re-joined the Fine Gael party.

WORLD

#CRACK COCAINE: Following months of denials, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine but refused to resign.

#SYRIA: The UN has said that over nine million people in Syria need outside help to survive.

#COMPLAINTS: The British Broadcasting watchdog has rejected a slew of complaints from a group representing Irish Travellers in the UK over the Big Fat Gypsy Weddings television show.

#NAZI ART: Previously unknown artworks by masters are among more than 1,400 pieces found in a trove of Nazi-looted art in Munich, German officials say. [BBC]

INNOVATION

• The former creative director of Buzzfeed has announced a new start-up website called ‘Rather‘ that claims to hide annoying posts from your Twitter and Facebook accounts. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

Ireland’s new footballing management team, manager Martin O’Neill and assistant Roy Keane, working for ITV tonight in San Sebastian tonight.  Pic: INPHO/Donall Farmer

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