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

IRELAND

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney with 2-year-old rhino Jamil at the official opening of the New Asian Sanctuary at Fota Wildlife Park. Darragh Kane Darragh Kane

• Plans for a new national children’s hospital were unveiled.
• Five people were arrested in Dublin in an operation targeting the IRA.
• The family of a Limerick man killed in the US are trying to return his children to Ireland.
• Public sector representatives have joined teachers and doctors in rejecting the Lansdowne Road Agreement.
• A man was charged in connection with a shooting incident in Meath.
• It has emerged that one in three children hospitalised with mental health issues are treated in adult wards.
• Businesses will get a discount on water charges if their water is not fit for human consumption.
• A Dublin firefighter who helped a woman give birth over the weekend recalled the experience.
• The father of a Northern Irishman who died while on holiday in Ibiza says that a change in the law would be a fitting legacy for his son.
• A number of traffic changes came into effect in Dublin.

INTERNATIONAL

Queen Elizabeth II talks to Pony Major Mark Wilkinson with regimental mascot Cruachan IV as she takes up summer residence at Balmoral. PA PA

#FERGUSON: A Michael Brown remembrance march ended with police trading fire and critically injuring a teenager.

#SWEDEN: Two people were stabbed to death at an Ikea store.

#DUBAI: The father of a drowning woman reportedly let her drown rather than allow male lifeguards “dishonour” her.

#BRITAIN: Dairy farmers have been protesting low milk prices.

#NEW YORK: A judge said two base jumpers who skydived off the World Trade Centre “sullied the memories” of victims of the 9/11 attacks.

INNOVATION

• Robots with a sense of humour could soon be a thing. [Business Insider]
• Remember Nokia? They’re going to start making phones again – in 2016. [Geek.com] 

PARTING SHOT

Check out the incredible art of artist Jake Weidmann – one of only a dozen people designated as a master penman. [This is Colossal]

Originally published: 21.00