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

Finding it hard to watch – but impossible to look away. A young Clare fan looks over the crowd. ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan

IRELAND

• KBC Bank will not pursue Priory Hall’s Stephanie Meehan for her mortgage because of the tragic death of her partner Fiachra.
• A man in his 20s died in a workplace accident at the Corrib tunnel this morning.
• In more sad news, a 35-year-old was killed in a crash in Kildare today and the body of a man in his 50s was recovered from the River Shannon in Athlone.
• Minister Ruairí Quinn said the budget cut must be less than the proposed €3.1 billion.
• A man has been charged with the murder of Navan resident Aleksandra Sarzynska.
• The elderly residents of a complex in Killester were lucky to escape uninjured following an explosion at St Brigid’s Court this afternoon.
• Clare and Cork will have to do it all over again on Saturday 28 September after a thrilling All-Ireland final draw.

INTERNATIONAL

Demonstrators kiss near the Russian embassy in Paris earlier today. About a dozen gay rights supporters carried placards and chanted slogans outside the Russian embassy to protest Moscow’’s policies on homosexuality. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

#SYRIA: Bashar Assad has told US television that he was not behind the deadly chemical attack of 21 August.

#SYRIA II: Meanwhile, US senators have released graphic videos of the victims of that attack.

#WELL JEL: Seemingly, Norway has ‘so much money that it literally doesn’t know what to do with it’.

INNOVATION

• More than 1,000 hackers are currently sat in the San Francisco Design Centre for the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon – building whatever their hearts desire. [TechCrunch]
• You can probably tell when someone is lying in a text message. Here’s how. [Brigham Young University]

PARTING SHOT

In this article, LIFE magazine questions whether a famous image of a leopard about to kill a baboon from the 1960s loses some of its impact because we now know it was staged. (A hunter caught the leopard and released him on the baboons for the photojournalist, John Dominis). [Life]

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