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

Children in costume enjoy Halloween festivities in the Haunted Harbour at The Liberties in Dublin. Rolling News Rolling News

IRELAND

• Disgraced Kilkenny hurling star DJ Carey was remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Monday for fraudulently inducing people to give him money by falsely claiming he had cancer.
• According to stats published today, the number of people in emergency accommodation increased last month to 16,614
• A man pled guilty to fatally stabbing Longford woman Sarah McNally at a bar in New York last year
• A murder investigation has been launched after a young man, Ryan Gibbons, died in hospital this week from injuries sustained during an assault in Kildare on Sunday
• People Before Profit leader Richard Boyd Barrett has revealed that his cancer treatment has been successful and that he will soon return to his role as a TD
• The State fully exited from AIB after the completion of its final transaction with the bank for €390 million
• MEP Lynn Boylan was told that she is banned from entering Israel for a period of five years

INTERNATIONAL

The front pages of national newspapers on display in London today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#UK: The family of Virginia Giuffre hailed the decision by Britain’s King Charles to strip his brother Prince Andrew of his titles and honours

#ANDREW: Calls to change ‘Prince Andrew’ place names and street signs across Northern Ireland have intensified today

#USA: US President Donald Trump’s surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing provoked global criticism

#MELISSA: The death toll from Hurricane Melissa rose to nearly 50 people, officials said, after the ferocious storm devastated Caribbean islands

PARTING SHOT

Moglaí Bap (Naoise Ó Cairealláin) agus DJ Próvaí, na moltóirí ag comórtas rapcheol Oireachtas na Gaeilge, ar an mbuaiteoir, Piaras Mac Dúglais. Clive Wasson Clive Wasson

Competitors at the first-ever rap competition at Oireachtas na Gaeilge in Belfast this week got a surprise when Kneecap’s Moglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí turned up as judges.

The pair later took to the stage themselves for a packed gig, blending Gaeilge, beats, and Belfast energy.

The competition, a new addition to the Oireachtas festival, was won by Piaras Mac Dúglais from Gaelscoil Bharra in Cabra.

You can read more about it here.