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

IRISH

RIAM's Eleanor Coleman (16), Ruth O’Hara (17) and Alana Hurley (9) at the High Achiever Awards. graphy: Sasko Lazarpv / Photocall Ireland graphy: Sasko Lazarpv / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• One man was killed and another two were left with life-threatening injuries after a spate of Halloween stabbings in Dublin.
  
• Overall, it was a busy night for emergency services with one ambulance attacked.
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny was sent a last minute invitation to the Web Summit but he won’t be going along.
• Heavy fog is affecting flights in and out of Ireland and delays could continue into the morning.
• RTÉ was found to be “misleading” in its portrayal of JNLR listenership figures.
• Former Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has been revealing some details from his new memoir, Inside The Room.
• A man sacked by his employer before heading off to join the army has been given a cash award for his unfair dismissal.
• A 47-year-old man died after being struck by a car in Tipperary.

INTERNATIONAL

The scene of a London riot after police attempted to shut down an illegal rave. Youtube / RT Youtube / RT / RT

#METROJET: The Russian plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people broke apart “in the air”, according to investigators.

#MIGRANT CRISIS: Eleven people, including six children — four of them babies — have drowned in a new tragedy off the Greek island of Samos.

#RAVE OFF: Four London police officers were injured as missiles and a ‘petrol bomb’ was thrown as they attempted to break up an illegal rave.

#INDPENDENCE: The UN has said that Spain’s separatist-ruled Catalonia region does not have the right to self-determination.

INNOVATION

• If a self-driving car is faced with crashing into a group of pedestrians or into one person, how does  it decide what to do? 
• A UK police force has promised a full investigation into how it’s Twitter account engaged in ‘rape banter’ about a football match.

PARTING SHOT

Dublin-based band Jiggy wrote the song Laethanta Saoire in the 1990s but it’s never before been recorded, until now. They’ve also now made a video for it and it has some very cool retro shots of the capital.