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

Children train on a small tarmac space in South Inner City Dublin that serves as their only pitch to raise awareness as part of the Sporting chance for Liberties campaign Source: Maxwell Photography

IRELAND

• A new Sunday Times Behaviour and Attitudes poll has shown that Fianna Fáil has overtaken Fine Gael in popularity. 
• A manhunt is underway in Cork after a man tried to rob a post office with a knife.
• A young teenage boy drowned in the River Liffey.
• Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TDs clashed over water charges after it was revealed that the metering programme is being put under review.
• New transport Minister Shane Ross has said that he won’t intervene in the Luas dispute.
• Lucinda Creighton announced that she was stepping down as leader of Renua.
• Gardaí appealed for a taxi driver who may have transported a woman who was later injured in a hit-and-run to come forward.

WORLD

Hezbollah supporters carry the coffin of their slain top commander Mustafa Badreddine who was apparently killed by Islamist extremists in Syria Source: Hassan Ammar

#BANGLADESH: An elderly Buddhist monk was found hacked to death in the latest attack in a spate of murders on religious minorities and secular activists.

#SYRIA: A top Hezbollah commander has died in Syria in an apparent attack by Islamist extremists.

#UNITED STATES: Pfizer, the largest pharmaceutical company in the US, has said it is blocking use of its drugs in lethal injection.

#PERU: Melissa Reid, who was imprisoned in Peru with Michaella McCollum over drugs charges in 2013, has been told that she will be expelled from the country.

INNOVATION

• The new Huawei Mate S has some solid features – but is it worth the price tag?
  
• The Future is here: a people-carrying pod that can levitate and travel at very high speeds has been unveiled in Boston (via BBC).

PARTING SHOT

Who says gardaí are all business? This video shows the boys and blue have no problems letting out with some fresh moves from time to time and stepping up to the Running Man challenge: