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

The ominous bank holiday weather is sweeping across the west of Europe. This is St Mary’s Lighthouse at North Tyneside in England. Spooky. Pic: Steve Drew/PA Images.

IRISH

• The new Red C poll for the Sunday Business Post is out – voters appear to be hitting Labour for Budget 2014, but not Fine Gael.
• The clocks go BACK an hour at 1am tomorrow. One TD wants to stop time. Sort of.
• Could RTÉ be right? Are we getting a new junior minister for rural development?
• The revoking of medical cards for ill children led to these scenes today.
• Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald explained why Ombudsman for Children will have the power to quiz the gardai on their handling of the Roma family cases.
• There were almost as many drivers caught speeding in 24 hours as there are days in the year.

WORLD

#UK: Jimmy Savile’s former driver has been charged with raping and assaulting 15 different minors over three decades.

#SAUDI ARABIA: Women protested the driving licence ban by defying authorities and getting behind the wheel today.

#FRANCE: This Greenpeace activist had a message to hang off the Eiffel Tower:

Image: Christope Ena/AP/Press Association Images

#IRAN: Sixteen people were hanged overnight in retaliation for attack on Pakistan border.

#CZECH REPUBLIC: Hard to tell who has won in the Czech election… [BBC]

INNOVATION

This jailed hacker has come up with an idea that he claims will save the Blackberry. [TechCrunch]

Amazing discoveries in the Amazonian rainforest – including a “monkey that purrs like a cat”. [Science Daily]

PARTING SHOT

Alright, who did this to the new Arthur Guinness statue in Celbridge, Co Kildare? And was drink, perhaps, taken?

via James Keane, who had nothing to do with it, honest.

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