Updated 11.3o pm

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

Ian Paisley and Bertie Ahern at a Battle of the Boyne commemoration in 2007. Eamonn Farrell / Photocall Ireland Eamonn Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Tributes were paid to former Northern Ireland First Minister Ian Paisley who died aged 88.
• His life in quotes and pictures. 
• A new deal on Ireland’s bailout loans will save the State €1.5 billion.
• After some tetchy media talking at Fine Gael’s think-in, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and health minister Leo Varadkar smoothed things over.
• A report by the Inspector of Prisons has shone a light on shortcomings in the deaths of 24 prisoners.
• There were 64 cases of children being abducted from Ireland last year and 45 cases of abducted children being brought here.
• A woman died in a two-car crash in west Kerry and another woman died in a crash in Louth.
• Revenue officials seized five million cigarettes in Rosslare.

INTERNATIONAL

Oscar Pistorius escorted from court after his conviction for culpable homicide. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#PISTORIUS: Oscar Pistorius was convicted of the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp. He was released on bail to be sentenced on 13 October.

#US: The mother of murdered US journalist James Foley has said that she felt like her son’s kidnapping was an “annoyance” to the White House.

#ESCAPE: A teen convicted of killing three students at a Cleveland high school has escaped from prison.

#ROB FORD: The controversial Toronto Mayor has suspended his bid for re-election to seek treatment for a tumour. His brother will replace him on the ballot.

INNOVATION

• You know those slim SD cards that slot into your phone or camera? Well, you can now buy an absurd 512gb version.
• TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the world’s foremost showcases for what’s new in Silicon Valley. Here are some of the best quotes from this week’s event.

PARTING SHOT

“In a remote corner of the South China Sea, 105 nautical miles from the Philippines, lies a submerged reef the Filipinos call Ayungin.” The New York Times has gone there and prodcued this rather beautiful piece.