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

IRELAND

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• The HSE commissioned an external review after one child died and others suffered serious complications following spinal surgeries.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the United Nations in New York that the world’s leaders are not where “we would wish to be” on Sustainable Development goals.
• Grocery price inflation has slowed down, but still remains high at 11.5%, according to the latest Kantar report.
• Nearly one million viewers tuned into Patrick Kielty’s first night hosting the Late Late Show on Friday, figures from the broadcaster showed.
• The Molly Malone statue in Dublin City was vandalised today in protest of tourists touching the fictional fishmonger’s breasts, yet paint left sightseers undeterred.
• A driver arrested after they were caught travelling at 217km/h on the N17, a 100km/h road, in Co Mayo yesterday.
• The average price of a house is now at €320,000 while the property price index increased by 1.5%, new figures from the CSO showed today.
• Gardaí believe a stabbing that occurred at Dublin Airport yesterday was a “random, unprovoked attack”, investigations are ongoing.
• A retired High Court judge has said that an inquiry into an alleged child abuse cover-up has described it as “one of the most serious cases of paedophilia ever in Ireland”.

INTERNATIONAL

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#US The US Air Force has asked members of the public for help to try and locate a missing, downed F-35 stealth fighter jet.

#UK London’s Metropolitan Police has confirmed that it has received a report of an alleged sexual assault following news reports about Russell Brand.

#LIBYA Experts have warned about the structural integrity of the twin dams in Derna for years, a Libyan state prosecutor revealed.

PARTING SHOT

In an address to the United Nations today, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told world leaders that we are not where “we would wish to be” on the delivery of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

Varadkar addressed the summit on the United Nations’ SDGs today and highlighted that although we are at the half way point, we have only achieved about 15% of the goals so far.

The SDGs cover 17 interlinked areas for action agreed by world leaders in 2015. They are designed to increase global prosperity, tackle inequalities and protect the environment.

Political Correspondent Christina Finn will be reporting from New York bringing you all the latest news from the United Nations General Assembly.