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

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Lorraine Galvin and Robert Connolly from the RNLI in Wexford chat with Turlough Tillotson (9) from Sligo during the Frontline Emergency Team’s Open Day today in Dublin.

IRELAND

• Funeral details for the three O’Driscoll brothers were confirmed.
• Gardaí investigated the death of a woman at a psychiatric hospital in Waterford.
• A man’s body was found in the Boyne in Drogheda.
• It emerged Health officials thought some of James Reilly’s plans were unworkable.
• A Tyrone man was arrested over a shipping container death.
• There was a fire at an apartment block in Limerick.
• That housing estate people have been queuing outside, opened for business.
• And that 25ft granny continued to wow the crowds.

WORLD

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#UKRAINE: A church leader in Ukraine said he thought Vladimir Putin was possessed by Satan, as a ceasefire in the region continued to hold.

#LONDON: A man appeared in court charged over the beheading of an 82-year-old woman in a suburban garden.

#EBOLA: Sierra Leone announced a four-day ‘lockdown‘ to combat the Ebola outbreak.

INNOVATION

• Music-enabled beanie-hats are the new thing, apparently. Super. Just in time for winter, too. [Guardian]
• And apparently the planet you live on (Earth, right?) will be buzzed by a newly-discovered asteroid tomorrow. [CNN]

PARTING SHOT

Did you catch David Cameron‘s slightly heartbreaking handshake fail at the NATO Summit? Kudos for the cover-up, Dave…

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