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

IRELAND

Festival goers at Longitude 2015 being held in Marley Park this weekend Tony Kinlan Tony Kinlan

• A new poll set to be published in tomorrow’s Sunday Times has shown a surge in support for independent candidates.
• Two youths have been rescued from a beach in Kerry after becoming stranded. 
• Gardaí have renewed their appeal for missing woman Breda Delaney. 
• A woman in her 70s has been killed in road collision in Wexford. 
• There is a campaign to have a US military ship named after an Irishman from Ballyhaunis.
• Sailors from the LÉ Eithne have arrived back in Ireland after 9 weeks in the Mediterranean. 
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny has stated that he expects to win the next election. 
• Irish Muslims have spoken about what it has been like going through a long mid-summer Ramadan. 

INTERNATIONAL

Max Heinzer of Switzerland and Andrea Santarelli of Italy competing at the World Fencing Championships in Moscow AP Photo / Ivan Sekretarev AP Photo / Ivan Sekretarev / Ivan Sekretarev

#IRAQ: A car bomb attack by Isis in Iraq has left close to 100 people dead and a number of others missing. 

#SPAIN: A bid of just €10,000 has been placed on a ‘ghost airport’ that cost around €1.1 billion to build. 

#UK: Prime Minister David Cameron has weighted into the seagull debate, saying he wants to start “a big conversation” about the issue. 

INNOVATION

• In some rather alarming news, it seems that robots have become self-aware. 

PARTING SHOT

Doctors in the UK have hit back at health secretary Jeremy Hunt for his criticism of “Monday to Friday culture” in parts of the NHS. [BBC]

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