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

Philomena Lynott admires the newly repaired statue of her late son, Phil. (Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

IRELAND

• Over 260 social housing units are on the way following a €32 million investment.
• 278 newborn babies may have had their blood group identified incorrectly due to label error, the HSE revealed.
• The Phil Lynott statue is back in town after being repaired following vandalism in May.
• The Ryanair pilot who took part in the Channel 4 Dispatches programme has been sacked.
• It emerged Mick Wallace and Clare Daly met Julian Assange.
• The latest CSO figures show that due to a fall in income older people are choosing between eating and heating.
• An investigation into junior doctors’ long working hours is due to be investigated by the EU Commission.
• A cyclist was killed today in Blackrock after she was struck by a truck.
• An Irish website has been threatened with legal action over a satirical article it published about French DJ David Guetta
• TV3 launched its autumn schedule today with The Morning Show getting the axe.
• The Northern Irish High Court ruled not to send a Sudanese family back to Direct Provision Housing in the Republic of Ireland.

The charred Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque, where supporters of Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi had a protest camp. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

INTERNATIONAL

#EGYPT At least 525 people have been killed in Egypt since police stormed protests yesterday.

#US Bradley Manning apologised to the US for the hurt he had caused.

INNOVATION

• Developers have come up with weather app that allows smartphones become meteorologists. [The Telegraph]
• An interactive map pinpoints 1.2 million global road traffic deaths. [Mashable]

PARTING SHOT

A new mammal species has been discovered – meet olinguito.

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