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Ireland’s medal total at London 2012 has risen to Four.
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/> Cian O’Connor has won a bronze medal in the individual show-jumping event after losing a dramatic jump-off at Greenwich Park.

Ireland’s Katie Taylor will compete in tomorrow’s Olympic lightweight boxing final.

The 26 year old defeated her opponent from Tajikistan at the London games this afternoon – in front of a huge Irish crowd.

Up to 4,000 people turned out in her hometown of Bray in Co Wicklow to watch the bout.

From there Newstalk’s Fergal O’Brien reports:

Syrian rebels claim they’ve recaptured some ground lost in the city of Aleppo.
/> Government forces today launched an all-out assault on the rebel-held Salaheddin district of the city – and fierce fighting has continued through the afternoon.

The Free Syrian Army says they have now staged a counter-attack and recaptured three of five streets lost in the district.

Both sides say they believe the battle will prove decisive in the 17-month uprising.

But Mary Fitzgerald, Foreign Affairs Correspondent for the Irish Times, is in Syria – she says if the regime takes back Aleppo – it won’t spell the end of the rebellion.

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The Digital Marketing Institute has announced the creation of 39 new jobs over the next 18 months.
/> The jobs will be primarily based in Ireland.

It currently employs 15 people.

The Institute offers training programmes in digital marketing in Ireland and to students in the UK, South Africa, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Cyprus and Estonia.

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/> A teenager who has suffered severe psychiatric trauma after a road accident that left him and his father trapped in a jeep for 90 minutes has been awarded over 70 thousand euros damages.
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/> Jack Killeen from Artane, Dublin, was 12 years old at the time of the collision by the M50 motorway in November 2007.

Newstalk’s Courts Correspondent Francesca Comyn reports:

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/> The motor industry is calling for measures to stimulate consumer confidence.

It comes as new figures from the Central Statistics Office show an 11.3 per cent fall in the number of new cars licenced in the 12 months to July.

6,164 new cars were licenced last month.