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

IRISH

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• A woman raped by her husband delivered a powerful victim impact statement. 
• Irish children may be taught coding in primary school.
• An 18-year-old man died after a crash with a tractor in Longford.
• GSOC says there was insufficient evidence to pursue any gardaí following complaints that were made after water protests.
• The fallout for customers continued after the collapse of Low Cost Holidays.
• Temperatures are getting so warm, there’s a weather warning in place for tomorrow.
• It was revealed that the IDA spent €1.4 million on a failed bid to force a Kildare farmer to sell his land.
• US advisory firm Teneo, led by Alan Kelly’s brother, has bought Irish PR agency PSG Communications.

WORLD

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#TURKEY: As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to wipe out the “virus” of the putschists, 9,000 public servants were sacked.

#DOPING: The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) has called for Russia to be banned from all international sporting competition, including next month’s Olympic Games.

#NICE: French police investigating the Nice truck attack say that Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had “a clear, recent interest in the radical jihadist movement”.

#TRUMP: The Republican National Convention kicked off in Cleveland, but the line-up isn’t exactly stellar.

INNOVATION

• New patents from Snapchat have given a clue as to what is coming next for the photo sharing app. 
• Pokémon Go has emerged as the latest battlefield for competing hackers.

PARTING SHOT

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A new addition to Dublin Zoo, a baby western lowland gorilla born to mother Zena, just two months after its father Harry died. Zookeepers don’t yet know the sex of the baby gorilla.