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

IRELAND

People attend Listen Now Again, the Seamus Heaney exhibition, at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre in Dublin earlier todaySource: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

• A young offender armed with an iron bar caused mayhem at Beaumont Hospital.
• Motorcyclist William Dunlop has died tragically following an accident during practice for the Skerries 100.
• A Garda is having his home fortified with CCTV and toughened glass in the aftermath of an acid attack against him.
• England are through to the World Cup semi finals.
• Simon Coveney says he is 'looking forward' to viewing the UK's white paper on the pending Brexit negotiations.
• A man has died following a house fire in west Cork.
• An assault in the early hours of this morning has left a man in Waterford in a  serious condition.
• A man died following an overnight crash in Co Meath.

INTERNATIONAL

North Korea's Kim Yong-Chol with US Secretary of State Mike PompeoSource: Andrew Harnik/PA Images

#THAILAND: Over 100 'chimneys' have been drilled into a mountain in a bid to reach a trapped Thai boys' soccer team.

#JAPAN: Many are feared dead after record rains in Japan prompted mass evacuations.

#US/NORTH KOREA: The two countries can't make up their minds how well the current denuclearisation talks are going.

PARTING SHOT 

It may well be Coming Home. Who are we to say? All of England certainly thinks it is. All of England except Noel Gallagher that is.

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