Five things you need to know today

1. Points rise

Leaving Certificate students get their results tomorrow. But this year the number of college applicants has reached the highest level on record, meaning points increases are likely for a range of third-level courses.

2. Gentleman’s agreement

A consultant psychiatrist prescribed benzodiazepines between 1988 and 2013 for a patient who had originally been diagnosed as having anxiety and an obsessive personality. When the patient threatened to report the consultant to the Medical Council, the consultant paid him €50,000.

3. Daily Donald Trump

Has Donald Trump destroyed his chances, asks Simon Carswell. The Republican candidate's advantage over Hillary Clinton in some polls after last month's Republican convention now seems light years ago.

4. Fisherman

A major sea search resumed at first light this morning for a man missing off the West Cork coast since Monday evening when he failed to return home from a fishing trip.

5. Guantanamo

Fifteen inmates from the Guantanamo prison have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during president Barack Obama's administration.

And Finally...

We are in the midst of a passion pandemic, reckons Fintan O'Toole. People can no longer like something or be interested in something but must "have a passion" for it.