Here’s What Happened Today: Sunday

Everyone’s talking about Halloween violence, Enda and Web Summit and the Metrojet plane crash.

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

IRISH

High Achiever Awards Perf RIAM's Eleanor Coleman (16), Ruth O’Hara (17) and Alana Hurley (9) at the High Achiever Awards. graphy: Sasko Lazarpv / Photocall Ireland graphy: Sasko Lazarpv / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

One man was killed and another two were left with life-threatening injuries after a spate of Halloween stabbings in Dublin.
Overall, it was a busy night for emergency services with one ambulance attacked.
Taoiseach Enda Kenn y was sent a l ast minute invitation to the Web Summit but he won’t be going along.
Heavy fog is affecting flights in and out of Ireland and delays could continue into the morning.
RTÉ was found to be “misleading” in its portrayal of JNL R listenership fig ures.
Former Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has been revealing some details from his new memoir, Inside The Room.
A man sacked by his employer before heading off to join the army has been given a cash award for his unfair dismissal.
A 47-year-old man died after being struck by a car in Tipperary.

INTERNATIONAL

rave The scene of a London riot after police attempted to shut down an illegal rave. Youtube / RT Youtube / RT / RT

#METROJET: The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people broke apart “in the air”, according to investigators.

#MIGRANT CRISIS: Eleven people, including six children — four of them babies — have drowned in a new tragedy off the Greek island of Samos.

#RAVE OFF: Four London police officers were injured as missiles and a ‘petrol bomb’ was thrown as they attempted to break up an illegal rave.

#INDPENDENCE: The UN has said that Spain’s separatist-ruled Catalonia region does not have the right to self-determination.

INNOVATION

If a self-driving car is faced with crashing into a group of pedestrians or into one person, how does it decide what to do?
A UK police force has promised a full investigation into how it’s Twitter account engaged in ‘rape banter’ about a football match.

PARTING SHOT

Jiggy / YouTube

Dublin-based band Jiggy wrote the song Laethanta Saoire in the 1990s but it’s never before been recorded, until now. They’ve also now made a video for it and it has some very cool retro shots of the capital.