NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of today’s news.
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IRELAND
- A report found half of men who took their own lives had worked in construction.
- Almost 10,000 people deliberately self-harmed last year.
- Permanent TSB says it’s too early to make a call on the bank’s future.
- The campaigns for two separate referendums are kicking off.
- A Dublin mayor is taking a pay cut to give money back to his area.
- Eamon Gilmore says the Halawa siblings are doing well in a Cairo jail.
- The body of a woman was found in Dublin.
- The remaining Ballymun towers have been cleared for demolition.
- Gardaí seized €280,000 worth of cannabis at a Roscommon house.
INTERNATIONAL
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#SURVEILLANCE: The National Security Agency has secretly cracked much of the online encryption used to protect emails, web searches and medical records. [Guardian and The New York Times]
#INTERVENTION: China and the EU have warned against strikes on Syria at the G20.
#ATTACK: Egypt’s interior minister has survived a bomb attack on his convoy.
#CRASH: More than 100 vehicles were involved in a pile-up on a motorway in England.
INNOVATION
- Samsung has released a mammoth 98-inch (!) television. [Mashable]
- Yahoo has chosen a new logo – and it’s not going down too well. [Business Insider]
- A Russian tech company has sold its Facebook shares for around €400 million. [NYT]
PARTING SHOT
Job interviews are usually a mixture of tough questions and awkward small talk – except in this case. A 21-year-old graduate was told to dance to Daft Punk during a group interview at Currys electronics store. Awkward.
Here’s what happened yesterday… >
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