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

IRELAND

Elle O'Reilly at the unveiling of Marlborough Street Mural in Dublin. Niall Carson / PA Niall Carson / PA / PA

• The HSE has ordered a report into the care given to a rape victim who was denied an abortion.
• A 45-year-old man died after being stabbed in Dublin last night.
• The first round CAO offers went out today. Here are the numbers, here are the points.
• A two-year-old Irish boy drowned in a swimming pool in Spain.
• Four men are on hunger strike at a Direct Provision centre in Foynes, Co Limerick.
• Twenty potential victims of human trafficking have been rescued in county Armagh.
• Ibrahim Halawa’s sister says he was beaten with a metal chain in an Egyptian prison on Saturday.
• The Equality Tribunal has found that a school did not discriminate against a woman who had a baby through surrogacy.

INTERNATIONAL

Police watches violence unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#FERGUSON: At least two protesters  were wounded by gunfire in a further night of unrest in Missouri.

#ASSANGE: Julian Assange has said that will leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London “soon”.

INNOVATION

• Twitter has brought in some changes about what it means to ‘favourite’ tweets. It’s received a mixed reaction.
• A robot has completed it’s hitchhike across Canada. [WSJ Tech]

PARTING SHOT

Nelson’s Pillar, Carlton Theatre, and little boys gazing in the window of a cake shop – they all feature, in living colour, in what appears to be a newly-released video of Dublin in the 1950s.

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