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

IRISH

Student protesters take selfies during a march in Dublin city centre today Conor McCabe Conor McCabe

• Businessman Breifne O’Brien was sentenced to seven years in prison for a Ponzi scheme that cost his victims millions of euro.
• The EU approved the construction of a nuclear power plant 240 km from Ireland in Somerset.
• Thousands of third-level students marched on Leinster House to oppose further cuts in education funding.
• Gardaí were investigating a car-jacking at Dublin Airport in which three people – including a Garda – were injured.
• The 130-strong Irish contingent of UN peacekeepers returned home from the Golan Heights, making for some very emotional moments.
• A man and woman in London were convicted of murdering Irishman Michael Hunt in March.
• The new US Ambassador Kevin O’Malley went up the road to the Áras to meeting President Michael D Higgins.
• A 32-year-old man was charged in relation to the burning down of an Orange Order Hall in Donegal last week.
• We learned that the Criminal Assets Bureau nabbed €6.7 million off the bad guys last year.
• There was some serious rain, especially in the South, but so far Cork city has been spared the flooding that was feared.
• A 27-year-old man went on trial for the murder of Jolanta Lubiene and her eight-year-old daughter Enrika in Killorglin, Co Kerry last year. (RTE)

WORLD

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#EBOLA: Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the US to contract Ebola, died in Dallas.

#ISIS: The battle rages on for control of the crucial Syrian town of Kobane.

#WHAT’S GOING ON?: Twitter has sued the US government for the right to say how often they ask Twitter for secret information.

#DIGNITY: We learned about 29-year-old Brittany Maynard, and why she’s planned her death for 1 November.

INNOVATION

• Microsoft Kinect will soon be able to track finger movements with a system called Handpose. Game on.
• Toshiba unveiled its new “communication android” and it is terrifying. (Quartz)
• Introducing the touchless gesture control ring, by Manabu Tago (Engadget)

PARTING SHOT

The Lost World – 60-year-old footage of Co Galway locations including Carna and Clifden. (h/t Irish Central)