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

The LE Eithne returns in triumph to Cork today from its mission in the Mediterranean Port of Cork Port of Cork

IRELAND

• The websites of three Dublin gyms were targeted by an Islamist hacking group
• A Polish woman has been awarded €55,000 in compensation by the Equality Tribunal after being discriminated against by her employer on grounds of her race and family situation while heavily pregnant
• Staff at a Dublin hospital have been suspended for accepting expensive holidays
• People in Tralee, Co Kerry, are worried about plans for a public call to prayer at a mosque in the town
• An Irish woman has died after being knocked down while working as a charity worker in Africa
• 2,500 foreign nationals were officially made Irish citizens today
• A Dublin man was jailed for sending threatening text messages to his ex-girlfriend
• Gardaí are appealing for information regarding the sudden death of 17-year-old Tory Johnston in Donegal
• It’s going to be exceptionally wet in the west of the country this weekend
• The man arrested over yesterday’s Longford helicopter crash has been released
• A man who posed as a reporter has walked free from court with a suspended sentence after threatening to put an elderly sex offender’s picture “beside Larry Murphy” in a newspaper

INTERNATIONAL

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#GREECE PM Alexis Tsipras has purged his cabinet of ministerial rebels as the EU paved the way for talks on a short-term, €7 billion loan to the embattled nation

#UK A 34-year-old man has been arrested after a motorist was stabbed to death following a car crash

#AUSTRALIA Parts of the country have been covered in snowfall in what is described as the coldest July weather in decades

#USA A man who shot and killed four marines has been described as a ‘friendly, funny, kind’ person

#UKRAINE Eyewitnesses to the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 have recalled what they saw one year ago today

INNOVATION

• The SIM card as you know it could soon be a thing of the past [TheJournal.ie]
• Could next season’s Game of Thrones start with a Jon Snow flashback? WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

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