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

(LtoR) Ryan with his dad Seamus and his brother Brain Heffron at the National Ploughing Championships in Co Laois. Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRELAND

• Irish troops will return to the Golan Heights amid increased tensions in the region.
  
• The National Ploughing Championships got underway today. Here’s a taster of day one.
• The Government is sticking by its plan to end homelessness by 2016.
• Five people escaped from a house fire in Dublin after jumping through an upstairs window.
• Arts Minister Heather Humphreys has defended the appointment of Fine Gael’s nominee for the vacant Seanad seat to a state board.
• A woman is in a critical condition in hospital after being stabbed several times in Dublin City.
• The building of the new Central Mental Hospital could begin by the end of next year.
• The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre was sold for €28 million – a fraction of its development cost.
• There’s a dispute over a large scale British Army exercise being planned for mountains in Derry.
• An advert for Newbridge Silver was deemed to be ‘too sexy’ by regulators.
• Michael Noonan said Sinn Féin were engaged in ‘pretend economics’ when asked about Irish Water.

INTERNATIONAL

#ISLAMIC STATE: The US joined with five Arab nations to launch strikes on the Islamic State group in Syria for the fist time.

#CLIMATE CHANGE: A summit of 120 world leaders, and Leonardo DiCaprio, met at the UN headquarters in New York to discuss climate change.

#9/11: The son-in-law of Osama Bin Laden was sentenced to life in prison in the US.

#LONDON: Veteran British DJ David Lee Travis was found guilty of one count of indecent assault but cleared of another.

INNOVATION

• Are you always favouriting a tweet intending the go back to it later, but then completely forgetting? This app could be for you.
• Today was Nintendo’s birthday, and it was an important one. Believe it or not, the gaming company is 125 years old.

PARTING SHOT

Catherine Edelman Gallery Catherine Edelman Gallery

Some of the most iconic portraits by influential photographers have been recreated by photographer Sandro Miller and actor John Malkovich in an exhibition in Chicago. [Boredpanda]