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

IRELAND

Emily Donnell (10) from Meath at Tayto Park ahead of Halloween. Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

• Westmeath man Danny Keena was convicted of murdering the mother of his children Brigid Maguire by “strangling the life out of her”.
• Journalist David Walsh described Tom Humphries as ‘a great, great man’ after child sex allegations against him became public.
• An Post has come in for criticism for a stamp commemorating Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
• Phone company Eir has been fined €10,500 after it admitted overcharging customers.
• Life extending drug nivolumab is now available to hundreds of Irish cancer patients.
• The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the practice of shops asking for customer email addresses after complaints.
• The most senior garda in Donegal was giving evidence today at the Disclosures Tribunal.
• President Michael D Higgins has compared the plight of modern-day refugees with that of those who fled Ireland during the Great Famine.

WORLD

Film producer Harvey Weinstein has been forced out of the company he founded after allegations of harassment against women. Richard Shotwell / PA Images Richard Shotwell / PA Images / PA Images

#HOLLYWOOD: Harvey Weinstein has been fired from his film studio The Weinstein Company following reports that he sexually harassed women over several decades.

#SMUGGLING: A 3.7 tonne haul of cocaine valued at €220 million was seized in the Atlantic Ocean.

#LAS VEGAS: Police officers who  were the first to enter the hotel room of mass shooter Stephen Paddock have described how they believed he had set booby traps for them.

PARTING SHOT

The Dublin to Dun Laoghaire stretch of railway line is one which will be familiar to anyone who uses the Dart, it first opened 183 years ago today.