Your Tuesday evening catch-up

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

IRELAND

A drunk driver who killed a four-year-old boy  in a head-on collision in Co. Laois  has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years.

The loss of the Web Summit "by people who probably don’t know how to turn on a mobile phone"  is "an embarrassment, and it shouldn’t have happened", according to Irish actor Liam Cunningham.

A man has been airlifted to hospital in County Limerick  following a workplace   accident.

Consumers in Cork could be using their phones to pay for goods in shops, bars, and restaurants  if an ambitious cash-free city plan takes off.

WORLD

It is being reported that Syrian rebels had locked people in cages  to use them as human shields against government air raids.

Hungary’s parliament has approved a resolution that rejects the European Union’s plan  to introduce a quota system to share refugees among member nations.