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

IRELAND

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• Two 9-year-old twin brothers have been killed after a stabbing incident in Co Cork. A body of a man in his 20s has also been found in a nearby town.
• The ECB’s “extreme” anti-deflation measures could now be worth €1 trillion.
• Prison officers have announced work stoppages for two prisons later this month.
• Gardaí have issued a fresh appeal for information relating to the murder of 17-year-old Raonaid Murray. 
• A homeless man in Athlone narrowly escaped being tipped into a bin truck.
• A Labour TD has stated that campaigner Philomena Lee ‘deserves an apology from the state‘. 

INTERNATIONAL

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#TRAGIC: US comic Joan Rivers has died aged 81, her daughter Melissa confirmed the news.

#LONDON: A woman is reported to have been beheaded at a garden in north London.

#EBOLA: More than 1,900 people have now died of Ebola in west Africa.

INNOVATION

• Do you get a kick from fancy new household appliances? Well there’s now a robotic vacuum cleaner and it sees everything. (At least that’s what Dyson says!) 
• Apparently airlines are ditching headrest screens…and it’s all your fault. [Geek.com] 

PARTING SHOT

What do Metallica and One Direction have in common? Well they’re both set to feature in the “Guinness World Records 2015” which will be published next week.