Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday

Everyone’s talking about a gangland murder in Dublin, #Repealthe8th and revulsion at the killing of James Foley.

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

IRELAND

Andy Connors Saggart shooting Gardai at the scene of the shooting dead of crime figure Andy Connors. Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

Crime boss Andy Connors was shot dead in Dublin.
Hundreds turned out to protest Ireland’s 8th amendment on abortion. But Mi nister Flanagan doesn’t think there’s an appetite for a referendum.
A 63-year-old man was charged in connection with a fatal stabbing at Dublin’s North Strand.
There’s a huge difference between wealthy and poor areas when it comes to participation in third-level education.
Dublin faired badly in a quality of life ranking, but Australia and Canada are top of the class.
About 300 Limerick homes could be facing 18 months without drinking water.
Masked men hijacked a lorry in Derry before loading a suspicious object into the back and ordering the driver to take it a police station.
A man was arrested after a small dog was killed at the grounds of Clonliffe College in Dublin.

INTERNATIONAL

Syria Journalist American journalist James Foley who was killed by Islamic State fighters in Iraq. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#JAMES FOLEY: US authorities have confirmed that the man beheaded in a video by the Islamic State group was missing journalist James Foley.

#RIP: BKS Iyenger, the Indian yoga guru is credited bringing the practice to the western world died aged 95.

#ICELAND: Tourists near the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland have been evacuated as the risk of eruption increases.

#US: The co-founder of the ice bucket challenge died in a diving accident in Nantucket.

INNOVATION

You should take five minutes out of your time to activate the Find my Phone function. Really, you should.
Samsung are to make the ”first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading” for US retailed Barnes & Noble. [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

Fidel Castro smoking a Cuban cigar with Nikita Khruschev, children playing with hyperinflated currency in Weimer Germany and IRA fighters in the 1970s. Here’s a collection of rare historical photos and the stories behind them.