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

Residents of Warrenmount Place, Dublin 8, take part in Street Feast, National Day of Street Parties & Community Celebrations. Allen Kiely Allen Kiely

IRELAND

• Gardaí launched an investigation after human remains were discovered on the Wicklow Mountains.
• Concerns were raised that private health insurance holders are being “bullied” into foregoing their right to be treated as public patients.
• The bomb disposal unit was called in to deal with an alleged suspicious device in Dublin.
• A man was arrested in the UK over the murder of Gareth Hutch.
• The Independent Alliance confirmed that it would be supporting Fine Gael leader Leo Varadkar in next week’s vote to be leader of the country.
• Enda Kenny called British prime minister Theresa May to outline his concerns over her impending deal with the DUP.

WORLD

Emmanuel Macron's La Republique en Marche party members react after the announcement of the first partial official results and polling agencies projections to do with the parliamentary elections are announced in Paris. AP Photo / Thibault Camus AP Photo / Thibault Camus / Thibault Camus

#UNITED KINGDOM: UK prime minister Theresa May announced her new cabinet (and it didn’t differ too much from her old cabinet).

#UNITED STATES: President Donald Trump accused former FBI director James Comey of cowardice by leaking accounts of his meetings with the president.

#LONDON: Police released images of the fake suicide belts worn by last week’s London Bridge attackers.

#FRANCE: New French president Emmanuel Macron was on track to securing a significant majority as the results of France’s parliamentary elections came in.

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