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

IRELAND

Students from School Trinity Comprehensive in Ballymun with their Leaving Cert results. Sam Boal Sam Boal

• It’s Leaving Cert results day, here’s a breakdown of the results in numbers.
• An Irish backpacker charged with concealing the death of her baby in Australia is to be allowed to come back to Ireland.
• A man and a woman were shot outside a house in Co Limerick.
• More than 170 Irish academics have signed a petition calling for an academic boycott of Israel.
• Ireland were beaten by England in the semi-final of the Women’s Rugby World Cup.
• A series of redundancies has been announced at the Sunday World and Herald newspapers under a new merger.
• A man was arrested in relation to the shooting of six-year-old Sean Scully in Ballyfermot.
• Five advisers to government ministers continue to be in breach of the coalition’s own salary cap.
• A well-known public toilet built decades ago in Dublin has been demolished. At least one councillor isn’t happy.
• Developer Michael O’Flynn succeeded in a High Court bid to have an interim examiner removed from his group of companies.

INTERNATIONAL

Police wearing riot gear try to disperse a crowd protesting over the shooting of AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#IRAQ: The UN has said that up to 20,000 Iraqis from minority religion face ‘mass atrocity‘ in the north of the country.

#US: Civil unrest in a part of Missouri where an unarmed black teenager was shot has led to a no-fly zone being placed over the area.

#SNOWDEN: Edward Snowden has detailed more of the NSA’s operations in comprehensive interview with Wired magazine.

INNOVATION

• Ever use your phone as a wi-fi connection? Here are some tips. 
• Samsung newest smartphone will have a metallic cover.

PARTING SHOT

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In 1994, Robin Williams starred as a grief-stricken widower in a small TV show called ‘Homocide’, written in part by The Wire’s David Simon. In a blog published today, Simon described his experience with the deceased actor and his intense complexity.