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

IRELAND

Gardai at the scene of the shooting dead of crime figure Andy Connors. Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Crime boss Andy Connors was shot dead in Dublin.
• Hundreds turned out to protest Ireland’s 8th amendment on abortion. But Minister Flanagan doesn’t think there’s an appetite for a referendum.
• A 63-year-old man was charged in connection with a fatal stabbing at Dublin’s North Strand.
• There’s a huge difference between wealthy and poor areas when it comes to participation in third-level education.
• Dublin faired badly in a quality of life ranking, but Australia and Canada are top of the class.
• About 300 Limerick homes could be facing 18 months without drinking water.
• Masked men hijacked a lorry in Derry before loading a suspicious object into the back and ordering the driver to take it a police station.
• A man was arrested after a small dog was killed at the grounds of Clonliffe College in Dublin.

INTERNATIONAL

American journalist James Foley who was killed by Islamic State fighters in Iraq. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#JAMES FOLEY: US authorities have confirmed that the man beheaded in a video by the Islamic State group was missing journalist James Foley.

#RIP: BKS Iyenger, the Indian yoga guru is credited bringing the practice to the western world died aged 95.

#ICELAND: Tourists near the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland have been evacuated as the risk of eruption increases.

#US: The co-founder of the ice bucket challenge died in a diving accident in Nantucket.

INNOVATION

• You should take five minutes out of your time to activate the Find my Phone function. Really, you should. 
  
• Samsung are to make the ”first-ever full-featured Android tablet optimised for reading” for US retailed Barnes & Noble. [BBC]

PARTING SHOT

Fidel Castro smoking a Cuban cigar with Nikita Khruschev, children playing with hyperinflated currency in Weimer Germany and IRA fighters in the 1970s. Here’s a collection of rare historical photos and the stories behind them.