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

Comedian Jon Kenny with (LtoR) Sandra Kennedy from Weast Meath and Teresa Daly from Cork. Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Three women were taken at gunpoint during a ‘tiger kidnapping’ in Dublin.
• A man was shot dead in Balbriggan this morning.
• Three bystanders were injured, one seriously, after being struck by a car being pursued by gardaí.
• €800 worth of equipment was stolen from an ambulance for critically ill children.
• Overlooked Seanad hopeful Samantha Long quit Fine Gael, saying it is ignoring women.
• Gardaí are looking for missing teen in Sixmilebridge, Dylan O’Doherty.
• John McNulty quit his controversial state board job – but will continue his Seanad bid.
• What does a tonne of cocaine look like? This.
• The inquest into Dhara Kivlehan’s death after she gave birth looked at whether she could have survived after being transferred to a Belfast hospital.
• One woman was killed and another injured during a farm accident in Roscommon.
• The GSOC chairman won’t be resigning, he said.

INTERNATIONAL

A demonstrator bangs a drum at an anti-war demonstration near Downing Street in London AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#IRAQ The Iraqi prime minister has revealed an Islamic State plot to attack subway systems in the US and Paris.

#USA The police chief in Ferguson apologised to the Brown family over the shooting of Michael Brown.

#SAN FRANCISCO The Irish students that trashed an apartment didn’t affect how welcome Irish people are in the city.

#SYRIA US -led strikes in Syria killed 19 people overnight - including one child.

INNOVATION

• What is the DHL’s first commercial drone delivery service being used for? Bringing medication to a North Sea island. [The Guardian]
• Apple has apologised for its buggy iOS8 update. Thanks, lads. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

We have some very strange – but wonderful – sayings in Ireland. Here’s a video of tourists in Dublin trying to decipher them. [DailyEdge.ie]