WHAT’S THE STORY?

1. A teenager has been arrested over the stabbing of a 19-year-old man outside a Dundrum cinema on Tuesday night.

Dundrum stabbing. The exterior of Movi Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

2. OSCAR Pistorius is back in court as the lawyers in his murder trial make their closing arguments. Today, he was branded a ‘deceitful witness‘ whose version of events was ‘devoid of any truth’.

So Nel has laid a clear marker - best case scenario for #OscarPistorius is murder since should have foreseen consequences of shooting.
— andrew harding (@AndrewWJHarding) August 7, 2014

andrew harding / Twitter

3. RUSSIA has banned imports of most EU food, which could impact Ireland’s cheesemakers.

cheese

4. ABOUT 25,000 people have signed up to support a class action suit against Facebook over the company’s alleged violations of its users’ privacy.

We passed the 25.000! Thank you for the huge support of our class action! Interested users can still register at http://t.co/P0A9N7ki7X
— europe-v-facebook (@europevfacebook) August 6, 2014

europe-v-facebook / Twitter

PS. We know this isn’t news, but the Irish lad and that Canadian girl he met on a flight kissed last night! DailyEdge.ie has the salacious* details.

*Nothing salacious about it.

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