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

IRELAND

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• Enda Kenny thinks he’s ‘very much’ worth his €185k salary. 
• The Graham Dwyer trial heard today that paint found on a spade near Elaine O’Hara’s body did not match the paint at Graham Dwyer home.
• 160 jobs will be lost as Cadbury scraps the Pink Snack bar.
• Major changes have been announced for the Gardaí with the set up of a new investigation units.
• The Oireachtas health committee was told today that the current system doesn’t work by parents who lost two children.
• A flight with 132 on board was forced to make emergency landing at Dublin Airport today.
• A Ryan Tubridy interview about depression stopped a man about to take his own life this week.

INTERNATIONAL

#JIHADI JOHN: The masked Islamic State militant apparently responsible for the beheading of western hostages has been named as London man Mohammed Emwazi.

#NORTH CAROLINA: An ‘America’s Next Top Model’ contestant has been killed in a triple murder.

#NEW REPORT: Jimmy Savile was known as a ‘sex pest’ but complaints were still not taken seriously

INNOVATION

• Have you accidentally deleted photos on your iPhone? You can recover them [TheJournal.ie]
• Burial pods – where bodies are inserted into biodegradable pods and buried like a seed with trees on top of them - aim to turn the dead into a forest of trees. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

Beer and ballet music have joined together in this strange but very enjoyable video about making beer cans. [GarageProject]

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