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

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IRELAND

• Over 50,000 students received their third level offers from the CAO.
• A man arrested in connection with a fatal car crash in Donegal on Sunday morning was released without charge.
• Gardaí appealed for information after a man was stabbed to death in Dublin last night.
• Limerick’s hurlers received a heroes’ welcome after winning their first All Ireland title in 45 years yesterday.
• The family of a missing Clare man last seen yesterday have expressed serious concerns for his well-being.
• Former President Mary McAleese hit out at the damage caused to children and adolescents by the Church’s teachings on homosexuality.
• Sinn Féin offices in west Belfast were targeted in an arson attack in the early hours of the morning.
• Plans for a new €6.5m train station in north Dublin were given the green light by the National Transport Authority.

• Statues of former Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were unveiled at a plaza named after the former US President near his ancestral home in Offaly.

• Taylor Swift’s concerts at Croke Park were revealed to have had the biggest cost for policing of a private event by gardaí so far this year.

Catalan police officers cordon off the area near a police station, following an attack in Cornella de Llobregat near Barcelona, on Monday PA Images PA Images

INTERNATIONAL

• #ABUSE: Pope Francis issued a letter to Catholics acknowledging the “long ignored” pain of child sex abuse victims that had been “kept quiet or silenced”.
• #TERRORISM: Police in Barcelona are treating an attempted knife assault on officers as a terrorist attack.
• #MEASLES: Cases of the disease have reached a record high across Europe.

PARTING SHOT

Tens of thousands of prospective students received their first round offers from the Central Applications Office this morning.

We had career guidance specialist Andree Harpur and DCUSU vice president for welfare and equality Aisling Fagan in studio with for a CAO Facebook Live.

Andreee and Aisling answered live viewer questions, analysed this year’s points and gave future students some tips on how to get settled into third level life, all of which you can look at here.