Your Wednesday lunchtime news catch-up

New figures reveal an increase in unemployment for July, Irish Water meet with stiff resistance in Cork as defiant residents block meter installations, a young woman tries to chop off one of her own fingers in a desperate bid to end chronic pain and an NCT tester is sacked over a breach of its code of integrity. Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.

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— Irish Examiner (@irishexaminer) August 5, 2015