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

IRELAND

Dublin fan Shane Peppard at the team's All Ireland homecoming in Smithfield this evening Tommy Dickson / INPHO Tommy Dickson / INPHO / INPHO

• British prime minister Theresa May says that the UK will trigger its exit from the EU before March 2017
• A suspect in a Tiger kidnapping has been arrested in Spain after disappearing in 2012
• Dublin’s All Ireland homecoming was a boisterous affair
• Former minister and co-founder of the Progressive Democrats Bobby Molloy has died
• Egypt has postponed the trial of Ibrahim Halawa for the fifteenth time
• Is the Lansdowne Road Agreement dead in the water?
• RTÉ has shelved plans to axe its long wave radio service
• Fianna Fáil environment spokesman Thomas Byrne says water charges are gone and won’t be coming back

WORLD

Alec Baldwin, taking to his new Saturday Night Live role as Donald Trump with gusto Youtube Youtube

#TRUMP: The US presidential nominee has had a bad 24 hours with the New York Time accusing him of avoiding taxes for at least the last 20 years

#ROBIN WILLIAMS: The actor and comedian’s widow has described the deterioration of his mind from dementia prior to his death in 2014

#HUNGARY: The Hungarian leader has been accused of mobilising “fear and hatred” with his country expected to reject refugee resettlement

INNOVATION

• Here’s why a tweet from Kendall Jenner can be worth more than a €500,000 marketing budget
• The New York Public Library has a roller coaster – for books [Engadget]

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