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

A protester outside Leinster House today. Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leah Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• A woman was arrested during protests outside Leinster House.
• A second man was arrested after shots were fired at a Limerick house.
• Gardaí in Cork are searching for a man who flashed two teenage girls.
• Nurses protested at a Galway hospital as they said it was “overcrowded and understaffed”.
• Super Junior Minister Ged Nash told us he’s leaning towards Scotland staying in the UK.
• The Taoiseach was questioned on Irish Water and PPS numbers. Here’s what he said.
• Deputy Alan Shatter said he wants the GSOC commissioners to be sacked over the ‘bugging scandal’.
• Lucinda Creighton says she’s joined the Dáil Technical Group… but there’s confusion over the issue.
• It’s official: The Dublin South West and Roscommon-South Leitrim by-elections will take place on 10 October.
• Here are the latest dispatches from our Family Courts Series.

INTERNATIONAL

PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#SCOTLAND Polls on the eve of the Scottish referendum suggest the pro-union vote will clinch it.

#WEST AFRICA Barack Obama says the Ebola crisis is ‘spiralling out of control’.

#THAILAND After two tourists were murdered, the Thai Prime Minister questioned whether ‘tourists in bikinis’ are safe.

#USA Social media helped the police to find the suspects in a homophobic attack.

#FLORIDA Two Irishmen were critically injured after a private plane hit a tree.

#GERMANY A 93-year-old man has been charged in Germany with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for serving as an SS guard at Auschwitz.

INNOVATION

• Finally - iCloud has been given an extra layer of security after the celebrity nude photo scandal. [TheJournal.ie]
• Speaking of Apple, the iOS 8 update is out now. [TheJournal.ie]
• Are you a gamer? More women than men play games in the UK. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Vox Vox

Domestic violence in the USA is in the global news at the moment after an NFL player – Ray Rice – assaulted his then-fiancée. This video from Vox shows this is not an issue that needs to be swept under the carpet. [Vox]

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