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

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IRELAND

• A report found half of men who took their own lives had worked in construction.
• Almost 10,000 people deliberately self-harmed last year.
• Permanent TSB says it’s too early to make a call on the bank’s future.
• The campaigns for two separate referendums are kicking off.
• A Dublin mayor is taking a pay cut to give money back to his area.
• Eamon Gilmore says the Halawa siblings are doing well in a Cairo jail.
• The body of a woman was found in Dublin.
• The remaining Ballymun towers have been cleared for demolition.
• Gardaí seized €280,000 worth of cannabis at a Roscommon house.

INTERNATIONAL

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#SURVEILLANCE: The National Security Agency has secretly cracked much of the online encryption used to protect emails, web searches and medical records. [Guardian and The New York Times]

#INTERVENTION: China and the EU have warned against strikes on Syria at the G20.

#ATTACK: Egypt’s interior minister has survived a bomb attack on his convoy.

#CRASH: More than 100 vehicles were involved in a pile-up on a motorway in England.

INNOVATION

• Samsung has released a mammoth 98-inch (!) television. [Mashable]
• Yahoo has chosen a new logo – and it’s not going down too well. [Business Insider]
• A Russian tech company has sold its Facebook shares for around €400 million. [NYT]

PARTING SHOT

Job interviews are usually a mixture of tough questions and awkward small talk – except in this case. A 21-year-old graduate was told to dance to Daft Punk during a group interview at Currys electronics store. Awkward.

Here’s what happened yesterday… >

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