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

IRELAND

Ireland's Eurovision crew return home. L-to-r, co-songwriter Mark Caplice, dancer Alan McGrath, RTÉ’s Marty Whelan, dancer Kevin O'Dwyer and co-songwriter Laura Elizabeth Hughes. Andres Poveda Andres Poveda

• The bodies of a pilot and a seven-year-old boy have been discovered after a light aircraft crashed in Offaly.
• A Coast Guard helicopter rescued three swimmers who got into difficult in the water near the Wooden Bridge in Clontarf in Dublin.
• Tánaiste Simon Coveney told the BBC that he wanted to see the British government follow through on its Brexit border commitments.
• A motorcyclist died after his bike struck a pole in Westmeath.
• Gardaí are investigating after videos shared widely around social media showed cars driving recklessly around Finglas.
• Mattie McGrath TD accused the Taoiseach of lobbying tech giants Google and Facebook to ban Eighth Amendment referendum ads.
• Up to 3,000 more people may still be affected by the tracker mortgage scandal.
• There was one winner of last nights €8.5 million Lotto jackpot, with the winning ticket sold in Galway.

WORLD

Bakr al-Malla, a Turkish youth, on the waterfront promenade, in Beirut. Bilal Hussein / PA Images Bilal Hussein / PA Images / PA Images

#FRANCE: Investigations are continuing into the background of a 20-year-old Frenchman who killed one man and wounded four other people during a stabbing spree in Paris.

#AUSTRALIA: The grieving father  of four children who were killed in a family mass murder has said their grandfather was to blame for what he called a planned shooting.

#KILAUEA: Hawaii’s Big Island is bracing for a potential volcanic explosion after new fissures opened up around the Kilauea volcano.

PARTING SHOT

For those of you who took part in yesterday’s Darkness into Light for Pieta House, sponsors Electric Ireland put together a video to celebrate yesterday’s walk and the 10 years of the event.

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