Updated 11.31pm

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

IRISH

Niall Carson / PA Wire/Press Association Images Niall Carson / PA Wire/Press Association Images / PA Wire/Press Association Images

• A two-year-old boy was found dead at an apartment in south Dublin.
• Three children were seriously injured in suspected petrol bomb attack in Waterford.
• The Taoiseach denied misleading the Dáil over Irish Water bonus claims…
• … while some tenants were threatened with eviction if they don’t pay water charges.
• The HSE confirmed that 23 tests for Ebola have been carried out in Ireland.
  
• Two people were killed in a road crash in Tipperary.
• Sinn Féin offered to meet Maíria Cahill over IRA rape claims, while Mary Lou McDonald said she believes Gerry Adams’ recollection of a conversation he had with Cahill.
• A man appeared before court on seven counts of having sex with a minor in the Dublin Mountains.
• ISPCA said a record number of horses were seized from the Ballinasloe Fair.
  
• Details of judges expenses were released for the first time.
• New data showed the ‘Viagra effect‘ on multinationals has wore off.

WORLD

Three-week-old baby sulcatta tortoises, which have been named Donatello, Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo, hitch a ride on the back of their mother Margaret at the Lake District Wild Life Park in the UK. Owen Humphreys / PA Wire Owen Humphreys / PA Wire / PA Wire

#EUROPE: A Eurosceptic group in the EU parliament, led by Nigel Farage, collapsed.

#IRAQ: A car bomb killed 26 people. [AFP]

#NEPAL: At least 28 people died in blizzards while hiking in the Himalayas. [BBC News]

#SPAIN: A flight was grounded over a suspected case of Ebola.

#SYRIA: Islamic State’s advance on Kobani has been all but halted. [Reuters]

INNOVATION

• Dark matter may have been detected. [The Guardian]
• Apple announced its thinnest table yet – the iPad Air 2.
• Google also had some new offerings, in the form of new Nexus phones.
• One of Saturn’s moons, Mimas, might have an ocean under its icy cap. [Science]

PARTING SHOT

These computer animations teach themselves how to walk, with some pretty hilarious (and some frighteningly life-like) results. [Vimeo]

Originally published 9pm