Updated 11.20pm

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

Seán FitzPatrick smiles outside court this evening. Sam Boal Sam Boal

IRELAND

• Seán FitzPatrick has been found not guilty of all charges. 
• In a statement afterwards, FitzPatrick spoke of his “six years of great difficulty“.
• Angela Kerins and Frank Flannery have been given two weeks’ notice.
• Water charges are going to be around €240 per year…
• … but the government parties are bickering over the charges being leaked.
• Free GP care for children under six has been given the go-ahead.
• A boy is in critical condition after a hit-and-run in Cork.
• More than 50 jobs are at risk at the Irish Examiner and other newspapers.
• A lot of cocaine was found in a pair of shoes at Dublin Airport.
• Temple Bar is one of the world’s ‘most disappointing‘ tourist destinations.

INTERNATIONAL

Relatives wait for their missing loved ones at a port in South Korea today. Ahn Young-joon / AP Photo Ahn Young-joon / AP Photo / AP Photo

#SINKING: Almost 300 people are still missing after a ferry carrying 462 people sank off South Korea.

#UKRAINE: Pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine have seized six Ukrainian armoured vehicles, a day after the military began an operation to remove protesters from public buildings. [BBC]

#PISTORIUS: The trial of Oscar Pistorius is to adjourn for more than two weeks tomorrow.

INNOVATION

• Lawyers in England are urging people to leave instructions for their social media accounts, passwords, and online photographs after they die, because that’s the kind of thing we have to worry about nowadays. [Guardian]
• Amazon and Google are locked in an epic battle to dominate the cloud – but Quartz says Amazon may already have won. [Quartz]
• Not to toot our own horn or anything, but TheJournal.ie is the first Irish site to allow users to open up its app directly through Google search, under a pilot project by Google.
  

PARTING SHOT

Every day, some 620 million people in India defecate in the open, with only half the population using toilets. This isn’t great for a whole lot of reasons, so UNICEF has launched a new campaign, snappily titled Poo2Loo, to encourage people to actually use the jacks when they have to go. As well as a video game and helpful instructional videos, there’s also a person dressed as a giant turd who goes around hassling people to make sure they use the toilet. Helpful!

(Video: Poo2Loo/YouTube) 

Originally published 9pm

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