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

IRELAND

A Brexit polling station sign next to a flooded path in Essex, England, as torrential downpours swamped parts of London and the south east today PA PA

• Robbie Brady was on the front of every newspaper today after his match-winning heroics last night.
• Concerns have been raised about the finances of suicide charity Console.
• The body of a young man has been recovered from a blowhole in Belmullet, Co Mayo.
• Two brothers, Edward (Ned) and Christopher (Chris) Mongan, aged 12 and 13, have been missing from Dublin since midday yesterday.
• An 18-year-old woman and her baby were found on the street after failing to get emergency accommodation.
• There will be a public screening in Dublin of Ireland’s Euro 2016 match with France on Sunday.
• Health minister Simon Harris has moved to criminalise ‘Z-drugs’ in the wake of the recent spate of gangland murders.
• A man has been convicted of sexually abusing two young boys.
• TD Michael Fitzmaurice claims that patients in his constituency can’t access a machine to save their limbs from amputation.
• Two petrol station robbers were confronted and tackled by off-duty gardaí.
• A 21-year-old man died after his car collided with a truck.

INTERNATIONAL

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#BREXIT: Voting has continued throughout the day in the seismic referendum which will decide whether or not Britain will leave the EU.

#COLOMBIA: The world’s longest-running conflict came to an end today.

#OMAR MATEEN: A man claiming to be the Orlando gunman’s ‘gay lover’ claims the massacre was carried out as revenge against a HIV-positive partner.

#PISTORIUS: The former paralympian claims that Reeva Steenkamp, the girlfriend he shot and killed, wouldn’t want him to ‘waste his life behind bars’.

#GERMANY: A gunman has been shot dead after barricading himself inside a cinema.

#NO STAIRWAY: Led Zeppelin have emerged victorious in a court case which sought to prove that the band stole the opening chords of their classic Stairway to Heaven.

INNOVATION

• Uber added a temporary feature to its app in the UK to help people vote in today’s Brexit referendum – and demand is off the charts. [Business Insider]
• Portable memory specialists SanDisk have made a smartphone case that gives your iPhone external storage. [Geek] 

PARTING SHOT

“The last riot we had was two years ago… When can you start?”

Shane Bauer has a gripping – and extensive – account of his four months as a guard in a private prison in the US in the current edition of Mother Jones.

“She gives us an assortment of other tips: Don’t eat the food given to inmates; don’t have sex with them or you could be fined $10,000 or get 10 years at hard labor… She hands out fridge magnets with the number of a hotline to use if we feel suicidal or start fighting with our families.”

Read it here.

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