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

IRISH

Sabina Higgins, President of France Francois Hollande and President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• French President Francois Hollande was in Dublin. 
• A man was jailed for 15 years for a knife attack on a woman he had been in a relationship with 15 years previously.
• Eight towns and cities were chosen for a €100m social housing plan of 450 homes.
• Five homeless families living in a Dublin hotel were told to after it went into receivership.
• A Catholic bishop has compared abortion to the involuntary Nazi euthanasia programme.
• A couple were attacked while walking on Dollymount Strand in Dublin.
• A woman who was hit by a scrambler bike while out walking her dog has died.
• A teeenager was jailed after a Leaving Cert student was left with broken jaw when he was robbed for €1.
• Social Protection Minister Leo Varadkar has suggested indexing welfare payments to inflation.
• The number of children waiting over a year for inpatient hospital appointments has topped 1,000.

WORLD

Russian National Olympic team member Evgeniya Shelgunova training for the Olympics. Pavel Golovkin / PA Images Pavel Golovkin / PA Images / PA Images

#BANNED: Russia’s track and field athletes will not be at the Olympics after an appeal against their collective ban failed. A blanket ban is still being considered.

#CRUZ MISSILE: Senator Ted Cruz shocked the Republican convention by refusing to back Donald Trump in his speech.

#AIR-STRIKES: There were calls for protests after US-led air-strikes in Syria killed a repotted 56 civilians.

#MH370: Searchers for the missing airliner say they may have been looking in the wrong place for two years.

INNOVATION

• Once self-driving cars become commonplace, they may make you money by driving other people around. 
• Gorilla Glass, the science behind shatter-resistant phone screens.

PARTING SHOT

Coming to a hotel nightclub near you, this Irish summer’s anthem. Goats Dont Shave featuring PHAT KiiDZ and their new GAA-inspired rap – GAA Jersey. Tuuune.