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

IRELAND

• Taoiseach Enda Kenny took the blame for ‘McNulty-gate’
• A nurse doesn’t remember telling Michael Kivlehan to stop ‘eavesdropping’
• The €86m EuroMillions jackpot was collected today. (By you, any chance?)
• Brian Cowen will sleep rough tonight - for charity.
• Residents at a Direct Provision Centre in Cork spoke out about their situation.
• Helen O’Driscoll says she forgives the eldest son who killed his twin brothers.
• Three people are due in court over an €80 million cocaine seizure on a yacht.
• Are taxpayers the losers in the latest bank bailout developments?
• Asylum applications rose by 26% in the first six months of this year.
• Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said Europeans joining Islamist State group is a ‘serious problem’.
• UK authorities have been urged to launch a criminal investigation into the murder of a Northern Irish journalist.

INTERNATIONAL

A large group of Muslims pay homage to French mountaineer Hervé Gourdel who was beheaded by Islamist militants in Algeria, during a gathering in front of the Paris Grand Mosque AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#BRITAIN British MPs voted to join air strikes on Islamic State.

#VATICAN Pope Francis fired a bishop who promoted a priest accused of sexual abuse.

#NORTH KOREA Leader Kim Jong-un hasn’t been seen in public since 3 September and speculation abounds as to why.

#SIERRA LEONE The Sierra Leone president says that Ebola is “worse than terrorism”.

#UK DJ Dave Lee Travis was given a three-month suspended sentence for an indecent assault.

INNOVATION

• You’ll soon be able to buy directly from Facebook, using a ‘buy’ button that’s powered by Stripe. [TheJournal.ie]
• So, what IS the iPhone 6 like, then? We’ve taken a look at it, and this is what we’ve found. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

Watch drones dance with Cirque du Soleil… no seriously. Here’s a fantastical video that sees flying lampshades come alive. [TIME]