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

IRELAND

James Kelly (5) from Mayo at the RSA Back to School road safety campaign. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• The government has committed to fully supporting Donegal County Council deal with the clean-up after catastrophic flooding.
• The Minister for Social Protection Regina Doherty has said that the Public Services Card (PSC) is not compulsory but is mandatory to claim social welfare.
• The men involved in the killing of a mother-of-six and a young locksmith while attempting to kill someone else waited in a car for over an hour for their intended target to arrive.
• The HSE is looking for a company to operate a pilot supervised injection centre in Dublin City Centre.
• A woman who has been waiting for an operation for more than two years has been told there are no guarantees when she will get her surgery.
• The parent company of Newstalk has announced new roles for outgoing drivetime presenters Chris Donoghue and Sarah McInerney. They have been presenting the show for the last 12 months, after taking over from George Hook.
• Both Ryan Tubridy and Claire Byrne say they have no issue with their salaries being made public.
• Parents told to put high-vis vests on kids as they cycle and walk to school.

INTERNATIONAL 

Corpus Christi firefighters help Guadalupe Guerra walk to a bus headed for San Antonio at an evacuation center Nick Wagner Nick Wagner

#TEXAS: Evacuations are underway as Texas braces for the ‘fiercest hurricane to hit the US in nearly 12 years‘.

#YORKSHIRE: Police could have captured paedophile singer Ian Watkins had they acted earlier on multiple reports of child sex abuse, a new report has found.

#LONDON: Burglars smashed a hole in the wall of a London jewellers and crawled inside to steal £1.8 million-worth (about €1.9 million) of goods.

#UK: Partially driverless trucks are set to become a reality on UK motorways after a government trial was given the go-ahead.

PARTING SHOT

Restored footage of Charles and Diana’s wedding has been released.

Now, 36 years after the wedding day, Associated Press has restored original footage from the 29 July 1981 wedding and released it in 4K resolution on YouTube.