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

IRISH

A female elephant calf was born at Dublin Zoo to mam Asha today after a 22-month wait. Patrick Bolger Patrick Bolger

• Two women died in a single-vehicle crash in Donegal.
• A nationwide review of all Traveller accommodation found fire risks and widespread overcrowding at sites.
• Gardaí issued an appeal after four tourists were attacked by a gang in Dublin city.
• Minister for Transport Shane Ross reiterated his statement that he would not be intervening in the Dublin Bus dispute.
• Bus Éireann workers will be balloted for strike action after they were told they would not be getting a pay rise.
• The Citizens’ Assembly will take place on Saturday 15 October in Dublin Castle, with the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution first topic up for discussion.
• A specially enlarged jury panel of 15 was sworn in for the trial former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick.

WORLD

Ulrika Nisser has her face painted with the Union flag and the Stars and Stripes as she joins activists aboard a 'Stop Trump' campaign bus in Torrington Square in London. Philip Toscano / PA Wire Philip Toscano / PA Wire / PA Wire

#CANADA: Over 19,000 students on the small Canadian province of Prince Edward Island were evacuated after police received a threat that bombs were placed at a number of schools.

#US: Donald Trump used money from his charity to fund his legal bills, according to the Washington Post.

#SYRIA: Four medics were killed and a nurse critically wounded after an airstrike hit a clinic in a village near Syria’s second city Aleppo.   

#SPAIN: A niece of Spanish Football Federation president Angel Maria Villar was found dead after she was abducted and held for ransom for several days.

INNOVATION

• Amsterdam will soon launch the world’s first “roboats” – driverless boats on its canals (via phys.org).
• Google’s new messaging app Allo isn’t as secure for privacy as the company said it was going to be (via The Guardian).

PARTING SHOT

Ever played tractor football? Skills, balls and engines came together at the National Ploughing Championships and we were there to see the action:

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