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

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IRELAND

• Thousands of people in the capital were inconvenienced today by an all-out strike at Dublin Bus: Transport Minister Leo Varadkar has ruled out getting involved directly in the dispute.
• A man in his early 20s was arrested by gardaí investigating the 2007 killing of Paul Quinn, who was beaten to death in a Monaghan barn.
• Gardaí in Cork are questioning a Spanish national tonight, after he passed €10,000 worth of ingested cannabis pellets in hospital earlier.
• There was a court appearance in relation to another, more mundane, drugs seizure in Rosslare.
• And – in what was a busy weekend for both the Revenue’s Customs Service and gardaí – cannabis worth €2.4 million was uncovered at a house in Oldcastle.
• There’s been another death on the nation’s roads (the third this weekend) – a young man died when his car struck a wall in Co Meath.
• 49-year-old Denis Nulty asked the congregation to pray for the loved ones of the Chada brothers as he was ordained Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin.
• Two men were said by rescuers to be “shocked and traumatised” after their boat capsized near a pier in west Cork.
• And Irish Rail unions are reportedly calling for a levy to be placed on the free travel pass.

WORLD

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#AUSTRALIA Recently installed prime minister Kevin Rudd (above) has named 7 September as election day in Australia, as he hopes to complete a stunning political comeback.

#ZIMBABWE Robert Mugabe is facing growing international pressure after claiming a landslide election victory, with US Secretary of State John Kerry calling the result “deeply flawed”.

#AMERICA Several US embassies were closed today amid a heightened terror threat: Barack Obama’s national security team held high-level talks at the White House to discuss the issue.

INNOVATION

• Many of Twitter’s most prominent users fell silent today in a boycott of the social media site over abusive messages.
• Scientists at Harvard have invented a new technology that allows humans to control animals with their minds! (more details in our web news roundup…)

PARTING SHOT

A photographer in Kinsale has been taking stunning daybreak photos of the wreck of the Tall Ship Astrid over the past week…

(Image courtesy of Jakub Walutek)

Read: And here is what happened yesterday…

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