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

IRELAND

Leon Farrell Leon Farrell

• Speculation about an early general election continued today as the Taoiseach Enda Kenny remained tight-lipped and the Tánaiste Joan Burton gave mixed messages.
• A couple who were convicted of letting an MS sufferer die with infected wounds have launched an appeal.
• Police are appealing to the public to help trace the whereabouts of a teenage girl and man who they believe they may have travelled to Dublin on Monday. 
• A 19-year-old man was arrested in Belfast after a 12-year-old girl was found to be pregnant.
• Irish Water is due to reduce its number of employees by 1,200 over the next six years.
• A man in his 20s has been charged with the murder of Kevin Molloy in Dublin earlier this year.
• Homeless families who had been occupying a show-home in west Dublin have agreed to end their protest after a High Court hearing today.

INTERNATIONAL

Fr Gino Flaim Cronaca Cronaca

#SYRIA: Assad’s army has started a ground campaign backed by Russian air strikes.

#ITALY: A Catholic Priest has been suspended after a TV interview in which he said he “understands paedophilia” but regards homosexuality as an “illness.”

#WAR CRIMES: Human rights group calls for the west to stop supplying arms to those ‘committing war crimes’.

INNOVATION

• You wait for a Motorola phone to arrive and three come at once. 
• There are faster ways to sort out your phone’s photo space problem.

PARTING SHOT

So Eddie Rockets is opening in petrol stations around the country.

Topaz has announced that branches are being added to 40 of its petrol stations and it has already started in Cork.