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

IRISH 

Enda Kenny with Ireland's gold medalists from the World Skills Games Maxwells / Julien Behal Maxwells / Julien Behal / Julien Behal

• A 33-year-old man has been arrested following the murder of a woman in her early-20s in Sligo.
• Nine people have been arrested following gardaí busts of illegal coursing events. 
• An Irishman linked to a missing person case in the 1990s has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting his wife in Canada. 
• Jim Nugent, known for telling the Mahon Tribunal for the ‘dig-out’ he gave former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has had to hand a property back to the bank. 
• Fianna Fáil has proposed establishing a basic income for everyone in Ireland. 
• The BAI has rejected complaints that Chris Donoghue was ‘rude and hostile’.
• A woman in Monaghan has died after a two-car collision this morning. 
• An Irishman who died in a kayak in the United Kingdom in early September may have had stab wounds to his neck and wrists. 
• Limerick is all set to get a new ‘superpub’ as part of the city’s economic regeneration. 

INTERNATIONAL 

A monkey with a pumpkin in Blair Drummond Safari Park in Scotland PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#LAS VEGAS: A woman has been found frozen to death in a liquid nitrogen chamber used for cryotherapy treatments. 

#UNITED KINGDOM: Police in the United Kingdom have released a video comparing giving sexual consent to making a person a cup of tea. 

#SCOTLAND: A murder investigation has opened up in Aberdeen after a 16-year-old was stabbed to death in a school. 

INNOVATION 

• Google keeps records of all of the voice searches that you make – but there is a way of deleting them. 
• Do those Candy Crush Saga invites fill you with venom and rage? Well Facebook is about to kill them off… 

PARTING SHOT 

If you grew up in the 1990s you’re more than likely familiar with the Goosebumps series of books. Vice spoke to their author R.L. Stine about being what he’s been up to lately. [Vice]

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