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

Athletes competing in the 40 hour non-stop Beast of Ballyhoura adventure race. Valerie O'Sullivan Valerie O'Sullivan

IRISH

• DNA analysis has shown that body parts found at recycling plant in Dublin are male and from the same person.
• A missing 12-year-old boy was found. 
• A bomb scare in the Dublin suburb of Edenmore was deemed a hoax.
• Despite female genital mutilation being outlawed in Ireland in 2012, there have been no prosecutions to date.
• A woman in her twenties died in a road crash in Co Mayo. Two people also died in a collision in Newry, Co Down.
• The woman whose landmark case found the State liable for the sexual abuse she suffered says she’s been “very disappointed” by the State’s response.
• 10-year-old Alex, whose father Andy Morgan died by suicide, has spoken to the foundation bearing her father’s name about his death.
• Four teenage girls have been hospitalised after an aerosol can exploded at a house in Drogheda.

INTERNATIONAL 

Ban Ki-moon says he is profoundly dismayed over the appalling escalation of violence. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#GAZA: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the shelling of another UN school in Gaza, calling it “a moral outrage and a criminal act.”

#CHINA: More than 367 people died and almost 2,000 were injured when a strong earthquake hit southwest China’s mountainous Yunnan province.

#NEPAL: Rescuers have ruled out finding any more survivors of a landslide in northeast Nepal. Eight bodies have been recoved and at least 100 people are missing.

#FAROE ISALNDS: Activists from around the world are flocking to the Faroe Islands in a bid to stop a controversial dolphin hunt known locally as the “grind”.

INNOVATION

• There is now an an app that delivers medical marijuana directly to people’s doors.
  
• Wondering what the latest instant messaging apps are? Here’s our round-up.
• If you’re planning a road trip, Mashable have put together the 25 best hacks to help you along. [Mashable]

PARTING SHOT 

Irish Air Corps Irish Air Corps

The Irish Air Corps take some stunning images of this Island of ours. We put together 15 photos that show just how breathtaking Ireland can be in the summertime.