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

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IRELAND

• The funeral of Eoghan and Ruairi Chada has taken place in Carlow today as a community united in grief.
• Exchequer returns show a surplus in July thanks to the sale of Irish Life.
• The SUSI student grant system has extended the closing date for grant applications following high demand and technical problems.
• Staff at Clery’s in Dublin have been told it could be months before the store reopens.
• It looks like Dublin Bus services will be affected by strike action this weekend.
• Over 100 jobs have been lost after a food production firm closed in Tippperary today.
• Two banks reported half-year results today: Bank of Ireland lost over €500m and Ulster Bank lost €387m.
• A man has been arrested after another man was found critically injured on a road in south Dublin last night.
• A man is in custody over the fatal shooting of Michael Kelly last month.
• The government could make motorways toll free for heavy goods vehicles in November to clear up rural roads.
• The property tax will be taken from the salaries of 50,000 people who haven’t paid.
• Ralph the sniffer dog helped seize over €1.5 million of heroin at Rosslare port today
• Masked burglars targeted the homes of two elderly women in Wexford last night.
• A Belfast councillor has been arrested over comments she made about Sinn Féin on Facebook.
• Dublin’s new free parking laws didn’t stop this GoCar being clamped today.

WORLD

Pic: AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi

#TRAVEL ALERT: The State Department in Washington has issued a worldwide travel alert for all US citizens amid concerns about a threat from Al Qaeda.

#CHILD DEATH: A Polish mother and her partner have been jailed for 30 years after they systematically starved and beat their four-year-old son to death.

#ZIMBABWE: Robert Mugabe’s party has won a two-thirds majority in the country’s parliament amid accusations of the vote being a “huge farce”. [BBC]

INNOVATION

• The FBI is now reportedly able to hack into microphones on Google Android phones and on laptops owned by suspects it is investigating [Wall Street Journal]
• Google and its new smartphone subsidiary Motorola have released the Moto X, a good device but it may not sell very well says one analyst. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

The birth registration of the Prince George of Cambridge has been released. We had a little chuckle at the occupations of parents, William and Kate:

Pic: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

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