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

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IRISH

• A five-year-old girl has died in a road crash in Cork.
• A man is unaccounted for after a suspected gas explosion on a street in Killarney.
• Police were knocked unconscious by rioters in Belfast overnight with more trouble expected tonight.
• Lucinda Creighton believes she could still be a Fine Gael minister and said lots of other stuff on Marian earlier.
• An Irishman is reported to have been among nearly two dozen injured following the Pamplona bull run in Spain.
• A Cavan farmer has died after becoming trapped under his machinery.
• The government has revealed how much the EU Presidency cost.
• Gerry Adams wants to curb drinking in the Dáil after our piece this morning.
• Revenue seized cocaine and cigarettes in two separate operations at Dublin Airport yesterday.
• Minister Joan Burton wants to crackdown on sham marriages.

WORLD

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#MOSCOW: At least 18 people are dead after a truck hit a bus in Moscow.

#TEXAS: The senate in the southern US state has passed one of the strictest abortion laws in the country

#ROYAL BABY: The world’s media is camped outside a London hospital awaiting the arrival of a Royal baby.

INNOVATION

• Ross Doogan, 12, could be the future of Irish rugby if this video is anything to go by [TheScore.ie]
• Scientists in Russia have released microscopic images of the meteorite that hit central Russia in February [BBC News]

PARTING SHOT

New Zealand performer Shay Horay, known as the Rubberband Boy, takes part in the Street Performance World Championships in Merrion Square, Dublin:

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