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

Rachel Farrell from Stepaside, Marius Senchea from Swords, Aisha from borth Dublin and Aseel Bukhakwa from Lucan at coding bootcamp at Griffith College. Conor McCabe Conor McCabe

IRISH

• Dublin Bus drivers have voted overwhelming in favour of industrial action after rejecting a Labour Court-recommended pay rise of 8.25%.
• A homeless single mother has been refused the Back To Education Allowance after securing a place on a degree course in Trinity College Dublin.
• An investigation is underway after private psychiatric reports were found underneath a mattress in a house in Wexford.
• Dublin is one of the world’s most expensive cities but is still ‘good value’, according to global property group Savills.
• A trainee priest at St Patrick’s College in Maynooth today described the atmosphere at the seminary as “poisonous”.
• The Garda Representative Association (GRA) condemned a “savage” attack last night on two of its members in Dublin’s north inner city.
• A 34-year-old man has died following a collision between a car and a truck in Co Donegal.
• Dublin Fire Brigade rescued two people in separate incidents, after they both dived into the Liffey to cool off as temperatures hit the early 20s in the capital.

WORLD

Diego Scofano carries the Olympic torch atop a moving cable car towards Sugar Loaf mountain, with the city of Rio de Janeiro in the background. Silvia Izquierdo / PA Silvia Izquierdo / PA / PA

#CANARIES: A park ranger has died while fighting a blaze in the Canary Islands allegedly sparked by a German man who set fire to toilet paper after defecating in the woods.

#MANDELA: South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has had its worst electoral result since apartheid.

#OLYMPICS: A Morrocan boxer due to fight tomorrow has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two female cleaners in the Olympic Village in Rio.

#BLACK LIVES 1: A jury in Virginia has recommended two-and-a-half years in prison for a white former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man.

#BLACK LIVES 2: Anti-racism protesters brought the main road into Heathrow Airport to a standstill this morning.

INNOVATION

• Facebook has begun updating its ‘news feed’ formula to cut down on clickbait headlines.
• Google has taken the next big step forward in its war against the password with an open source system to log you into apps on your phone. [The Guardian] 
  

PARTING SHOT

WATCH: TheJournal.ie‘s Olympic team Niall Kelly and Sinéad O’Carroll are live from their Rio base ahead of tonight’s 2016 Olympics opening ceremony.
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