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

IRELAND

People Before Profit Paul Murphy TD looks in the direction of Mrs Burton from Leinster House. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

•  It’s 12 July and thousands marched across Ulster to celebrate the Protestant victory over the Catholic King James at the Boyne in 1690. We went up to see if it’s really as ‘family-friendly’ as promoters would have us believe.
• A woman in her 40s has been arrested in relation to the fatal stabbing of a three-year-old boy in Kimmage on Monday
• A 21-year-old Irishman who was left in a critical condition following an assault in San Diego last month arrived home and will make a full recovery.
• Gardaí urged the public to look out for missing teenager Conor McAleer who has been missing from Balbriggan, north Dublin since Monday
• The trial of a garda accused of sending abusive messages to her partner’s ex-wife continued. The prosecution alleged she delivered posters describing the woman as an ‘incompetent useless hobbit’ around her estate
• The Summer Economic Statement was announced and it emerged that there is just an extra €300 million to spend this year compared to 2016
• A wheelchair user described the embarrassment she felt when she was forced to wait 15 minutes for train staff to help get her off a Dart carriage
• Six people linked to the Kinahan cartel were today refused free legal aid to fight Criminal Assets Bureau proceedings
• It was announced that Ballymun is to be the site of more than 2,000 new homes which are to be built to fight the housing crisis.

INTERNATIONAL

A guard of honour form up as they wait for King Felipe VI of Spain to inspect them during a ceremonial welcome for his State Visit to the UK. Nick Ansell / PA Nick Ansell / PA / PA

#GRENFELL: The latest victims of the fire tragedy have been identified but there are still 40 people unaccounted for.

#ICEBERG AHEAD: A trillion-tonne iceberg has snapped off west Antarctica as environmental activists claim climate change has sped up the process.

#NIQAB BAN: The European Court of Human Rights yesterday upheld a Belgian ban on wearing the full-face niqab veil in public, calling the restriction “necessary in a democratic society”.

PARTING SHOT

Ever wondered what a festival would look like if humans were replaced with Lego? Yeah, me neither.

But the folks over at Studio9 have done just that ahead of the Beatyard festival which takes place on the 5 and 6 August in Dun Laoghaire Harbour.

Marquee? Pretty low-key if you ask me. Beatyard / Studio9 Beatyard / Studio9 / Studio9

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