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

Conkers sit in a puddle during a spate of sunshine in Surrey, UK, this afternoon PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

IRELAND

• All sides in the ongoing Dublin Bus pay dispute are to meet at the Workplace Relations Commission tomorrow for talks “without preconditions”
• Two men in their 20s have been arrested following a car chase after shots were fired in Cork city
• The government has offered a pay deal to a Garda union
• A man remains at large in relation to an armed robbery in Neilstown in Dublin, while another man faces court for the same crime
• Labour leader Brendan Howlin says that the “whole water charges issue was a mistake”
• The departures floor at Dublin Airport is to be replaced after 44 years
• A new poll has shown that most people would be very happy were Michael D Higgins to stay on for a second term as Irish president

Former Coronation Street actor Marc Anwar PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

WORLD

#CORONATION STREET: Pakistani actor Marc Anwar has been sacked from the long-running soap after posting a series of “racially offensive” tweets

#WASHINGTON: A gunman who killed five people at a shopping centre has been arrested, but police say he has no terrorist links

#KEITH LAMONT SCOTT: Charlotte, North Carolina, police have released a video showing the shooting of a black man, Scott, which sparked riots

#JORDAN: A writer who faced charges for disrespecting Islam has been shot dead outside court

#NICE: Two teenage girls have been arrested in connection with a planned terror attack

#TRUMP: The Republican nominee threatened to place a woman who had an affair with former president Bill Clinton in the front row for tomorrow night’s first televised US presidential debate

#ALEPPO: Russia has been accused of committing “war crimes” via its sustained bombing of the Syrian city

INNOVATION

• Could Google be about to buy Twitter? [Techradar]
• In other Google news, one of the search giant’s self-driving cars has been involved in a serious crash, but it was a human that was at fault [Engadget]

PARTING SHOT

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Crew on board the Spanish Navy ship OPV Centinela pay tribute this afternoon to the 1,100 people who perished at Streedagh Beach in Sligo following the retreat of the Spanish Armada in 1588