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

Zoe Carol Wong, left, and Irene O’Brien with her dog ‘Dolly Parton’ publicising The Doggie Do, Ireland’s dog-centric event on 11 September. Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

IRELAND

• Pat Hickey of the Olympic Council of Ireland will face a Brazilian judge tomorrow accused of three charges over the sale of Olympics tickets, and was visited by Irish consular officials today.
• Brazilian police have been given permission to seize the passport of Football Association of Ireland chief executive John Delaney.
• More than 3,000 people have lodged claims for a refund following the collapse of Lowcostholidays.
• Members of a group of squatters who have been living in a derelict prison now face jail time in a fully operational prison.
• Victims of farm-related thefts have spoken of the impact these crimes had on their lives in a new campaign urging people to buy farm machinery from reputable sellers.
• RTÉ has announced a sequel to its 1916 drama Rebellion, as part of its new programming schedule.
• A woman from Kilkenny found a lottery ticket worth €139,025 after cleaning out her handbag last night.

INTERNATIONAL

Fireworks during the Rio Olympic Games 2016 Closing Ceremony at the Maracana. Martin Rickett / PA Martin Rickett / PA / PA

#BRUSSELS: A woman stabbed three people on a bus in Brussels today and was then shot by local police on the street outside.

#TRANSGENDER: A US judge has blocked federal guidelines instructing public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms of their choice.

#FRANCE: Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that he will seek the nomination of his centre-right party to stand in next year’s presidential election.

#LYIN’ LOCHTE: Speedo USA has ended its sponsorship of embattled swimmer Ryan Lochte following false claims he had been robbed at gunpoint in Rio.

#SUICIDE BOMB: Iraqi security forces apprehended a teenager wearing a suicide belt before he was able to detonate it in the city of Kirkuk.

INNOVATION

• The CSO wants to use mobile phone data to figure out tourism patterns.
• Self-driving cars don’t care about your moral dilemmas. [Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

It’s 70 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The full horror of the devastation wasn’t fully understood until one of the greatest pieces of journalism from John Hershey, however – as BBC Magazine explains.

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