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

IRELAND

Galway's Joe Canning, Padraic Mannion and John Hansbury celebrate winning the All-Ireland hurling final Tommy Dickson; ©INPHO / Tommy Dickson/INPHO Tommy Dickson; ©INPHO / Tommy Dickson/INPHO / Tommy Dickson/INPHO

• Junior minister Finian McGrath was criticised after it emerged he had previously called for the HPV vaccine Gardasil to be banned.
• Three people arrested as part of the Patricia O’Connor murder investigation were released.
• Galway overcame Waterford to win the All-Ireland hurling final.
• Anti-social behaviour is continuing in a south Dublin housing estate despite recent investment by the local council in a CCTV and speaker system.
• Gardaí in Galway appealed for the public’s help to find a 16-year-old boy who has been missing since Friday.
• A newly launched Irish company is aiming to match up elderly homeowners with empty rooms with students or young professionals.
• People were encouraged to bring their camping gear home from Electric Picnic.

WORLD

Oliver Townend on his way to winning on Ballaghmor Class at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials in England PA Wire / PA Images PA Wire / PA Images / PA Images

#NORTH KOREA: US President Donald Trump and others condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear weapons test.

#ENGLAND: Four people were injured after a car crashed into a house and caught fire in York.

#US: Walter Becker, Steely Dan co-founder, died at the age of 67.

#FRANKFURT: At least 60,000 people left their homes in Frankfurt so a huge unexploded World War II bomb could be defused.

PARTING SHOT

Ignore your Sunday night fear and see how you get on in this Extremely Difficult 90s Kids’ TV Quiz (via DailyEdge.ie).

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