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

The Fastnet Rally arrived back to Bantry after a 2-year break. Organised by the Skibbereen and District Car Club, it brought 160 cars and participants to Bantry and surrounding areas. ED / Alamy Stock Photo ED / Alamy Stock Photo / Alamy Stock Photo

IRELAND

• It’s been a busy week politically, but The Journal has everything you need to catch up on the victories and losses in the presidential race. Political editor Christina Finn has the inside story on rumblings on Fianna Fáil leadership and what was going on inside Heather Humphreys’s failed campaign.
• If you’d like to learn more about our president-elect, reporter Eoghan Dalton has a profile of the ‘First Husband’, Eimer McAuley has analysis on Connolly’s online campaign, and Gaeltacht correspondent Concubhar Ó Liatháin reports that Irish will be the working language inside Connolly’s Áras.
• In non-election news, 19-year-old Ava Crean was the first Irish woman to cross the finish line at today’s Dublin Marathon. 
• A body was recovered from the southern shore of Galway Bay in North Clare by Irish Coast Guard personnel.
• A man in his 20s was found unresponsive on McGee Terrace in Co Kildare in the early hours of this morning after an alleged assault, gardaí said.

INTERNATIONAL

US President Donald Trump talks with Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as he arrives at Kuala Lumpur International Airport to attend the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#TALKING TARIFFS: US President Donald Trump started his Asia tour in Malaysia today with a flurry of signatures, rewarding feuding neighbours Cambodia and Thailand with trade deals after co-signing their ceasefire pact, and saying he was confident of a “great” deal when he meets Chinese Premier Xi Jinping later this week.

#PALESTINE: Hamas has accused Israel of violating the current ceasefire agreement in Gaza after its army struck the central Nuseirat refugee camp last night.

#GROUNDED: English journalist Louis Theroux had his podcast’s sponsorship from British Airways paused after he had a sit-down interview with the frontman of controversial punk-rap duo Bob Vylan.

PARTING SHOT

Retired teacher Maureen O’Hanlon, pictured with granddaughter Anna. Patrick Browne / Mediaconsult/PA Patrick Browne / Mediaconsult/PA / Mediaconsult/PA

A GRANDMOTHER WHO created 1,000 Christmas shoebox gifts for children living in poverty is hoping her efforts can push a charity’s total present haul over the three-million mark.

Team Hope has so far delivered 2.8 million shoebox gifts packed by Irish families for children in Africa and eastern Europe – and aims to cross the milestone to mark its 15th anniversary.

In the run-up to Halloween, Wexford woman Maureen O’Hanlon is putting the final touches to this year’s batch of 100 festive boxes.