Updated 23.20pm

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

Ray Foley and JP of Dublin's 98FM (Batman and Robin) with 14-month-old Aaron Quinless from Wexford urge people to take part in the Super Hero Fun Run in aid of Our Lady's Children Hospital at 10:30am on Sunday 5 October in the Polo Grounds, Phoenix Park, Dublin. Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Monica O’Connor has been released from Mountjoy Prison after being jailed for refusing to pay a fine for not registering two of her children for home schooling.
• The Israeli ambassador told an Oireachtas Committee that he was here to stay.
• The Cabinet were back from their holidays. 
  
• The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre said there has been a ‘disturbing increase’ in sexual violence.
• People have been queuing up to buy houses in Swords.
• Fewer people are signing on for the dole.
• Guinness has launched two new beers.
• Siptu members of Irish Rail are to ballot their members on the LRC proposals that averted further strike action.
• Irish beef farmers protested outside a McDonalds in Kilkenny.
• The idea of a once-off ‘Republic Day’ is being seriously considered by politicians.

INTERNATIONAL

Police walk past a model of a F-35 Lightning II aircraft displayed on the golf course at Celtic Manor in Newport South Wales ahead of the Nato summit. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#USA: Barack Obama said the US will not be intimidated by the beheading of a second American journalist by Islamic State militants.

#UKRAINE: Ukranian president Petro Poroshenko released a statement saying that a  “ceasefire regime” had been agreed with Vladimir Putin, but the Kremlin denied any truce deal.

#CZECH REPUBLIC: Ashya King, the child whose parents were arrested for removing him from an English hospital, is to be treated for his brain tumour in the Czech Republic.

#UK: The British man being treated for Ebola in a London hospital was discharged.

INNOVATION

• We don’t like to think about death, but here’s what happens to your social media profiles when you pass away.
• No need to light a match in the bathroom anymore with this new toilet. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Ever wonder how much comes out of a mine? These giant copper orbs show just how much. [Wired.com]

First published 21.00pm