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

IRELAND

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• A man was killed in a hit-and-run in Swords, a man was then arrested
• Two people died after a car crash in Cork
• The Labour Party got some good news in opinion polls
• It was revealed a woman was refused an abortion under new legislation [RTÉ]
• A man appeared in court charged with stealing an ATM with a digger
• Seventeen deadly jellyfish were removed from a Dublin beach
• Sectarian graffiti was daubed on two Catholic churches in the North
• Animals were stolen from a Kerry pet farm
• A man was recovering after ramming a barrier at a Dublin hospital while transporting a man who had been shot to the emergency department
• A woman in her 70s was injured in a house fire in Drogheda

INTERNATIONAL

A group of Police Officers stand by the main entrance to Tilbury Docks in Essex, where a shipping container was found with 31 illegal immigrants inside with one dead.

#ESSEX DOCKS: A man has died after 31 illegal immigrants were found in a shipping container at an English docks. Reports say the migrants, some of whom are children, had arrived on a ship from Belgium.

#YAZIDI: Dozens of Yazidi villagers were slaughtered by the Islamic State in Iraq. The men were killed in the town of Kocho, 45 kilometres from the Kurdish town of Sinjar.

#FERGUSON: Violence returned to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri. Stores were looted after police said that an unarmed black teenager who was shot dead had been a suspect in an armed robbery.

INNOVATION

• What are this week’s hottest apps? Click here and find out. 
• These robots are working together and that is slightly terrifying but also very cool. [Geek.com]

PARTING SHOT

The militarisation of the police in Ferguson, Missouri has turned attention to a Pentagon programme that gives police forces surplus weapons and equipment. This New York Times map lets you see just which police forces got grenade launchers, helicopters and night vision goggles.