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

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Sinéad O’Connor performing this afternoon, as the three-day Electric Picnic wound-down in Stradbally.

IRELAND

• Two Irishmen died by drowning in Crete, it emerged.
• An investigation began, after a pub shooting in Dublin.
• Martin McGuinness made a peace plea to dissidents.
• Sinn Féin picked their candidate for the DSW by-election.
• There were calls for supervised injection centres.
• A man was arrested over an attack on an elderly woman.
• Third-level grants could be open to asylum seekers next year, a minister confirmed.
• Seamus Heaney was honoured with a series of events in his hometown.
• And, of course, there was the small matter of the All-Ireland SFC semi-final.

WORLD

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Philippine military chief Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang shows reporters where Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights have been repositioned

#GOLAN HEIGHTS: The UN confirmed Philippine peacekeepers were safe after their Irish-aided ‘great escape’ from a rebel attack.

#MISSING BOY: The parents of seriously ill five-year-old Ashya King are due to appear in court in Spain tomorrow, having been arrested.

#RAMPING IT UP: And, in a new interview, Vladimir Putin has for the first time raised the prospect of giving east Ukraine ‘statehood’.

INNOVATION

• Every connected device on the internet, displayed in one map… Check it out.[Huffington Post]
• And somehow we missed this one during the week… There’s a multi-million euro competition under way to design a real-life Star Trek ‘tricorder’ device.[BBC]

PARTING SHOT

We’ll end where we came in… As EP comes to a close for another year with headline performances from Beck and Outkast tonight, you might appreciate a reminder that (keen to capitalise on all the publicity, no doubt) organisers are releasing the first tranche of tickets for NEXT YEAR tomorrow afternoon. Sheesh.

Here’s Beck, anyway, to play us out…

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