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

IRELAND

A ceremony was held n Cathal Brugha Barracks to mark the anniversary of Michael Collins' death. Neville Neville

• The death of a man in Donegal was not caused by the Ebola virus. 
• ‘A small number’ of women seeking asylum in Ireland were granted visas to travel overseas for an abortion.
• Details of former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds’ State funeral  will take place on Monday in Dublin.
• Gardaí are investigating the movements of two cars they believe were used in the murder of crime boss Andy Connors.
• A new search for Brendan Megraw ‘disappeared’ in 1978 is to begin at a bog in Co Meath.
• About 300 people attended an ‘equal care vigil’ organised by the Pro-Life campaign outside the Dáil this evening.
• The Forum building in Dublin’s IFSC was sold for €37.8 million.
• Ireland’s James McGee qualified for the first round of the US Open.

INTERNATIONAL

An Indian girl arranges idols of elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha. Rajesh Kumar Singh / PA Images Rajesh Kumar Singh / PA Images / PA Images

#GAZA: Hamas executed 18 men for allegedly helping Israel in its six-week assault on the territory.

#GRUESOME: The trial of a German policeman accused of murdering a willing victim he met on a cannibalism website begun in Germany.

#UK: A London teenager was jailed after pleading guilty to stabbing his friend to death in an argument over £30.

#ISLAMIC STATE: The family of murdered journalist James Foley released an email sent to his parents from their son’s captors before his execution.

INNOVATION

• Phone, watch and tablet all dead? Samsung has created a cable that charges three devices at the same time.
• The King is dead, long live the King. Microsoft is set to unveil the successor to Windows 8 next month.

PARTING SHOT

Tony Zhou / Vimeo

In this video, film buff Tony Zhou explores if there’s a better way of showing a text message in a film. He argues that even though we’re well into the digital age, film is still ineffective at depicting the world we live in. Maybe the solution lies not in content, but in form he argues.