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

IRELAND

Shoppers took to the streets on Dublin's Henry Street today. Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• One further death and 11 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland.
• Quarantine measures for arrivals to Ireland are set to remain as ministers have put the travel “green list” on hold beyond 9 July.
• Taoiseach Micheál Martin has backed his agriculture minister Barry Cowen after it emerged the TD had served a drink-driving ban. 
• A man was arrested after shots were fired at gardaí in Cork. 
• Here’s the health experts’ advice for Phase Three socialising. 
• The weather was grim today and is set to remain so. 
• At no cost, Princes Street has led the post-Covid revival in Cork city. 
• Here’s how the Orange Order is celebrating a socially-distanced 12 July. 
• Three men were due to appear in court over violence and criminal damage in Mullingar.
• The FAI has confirmed it is seeking more financial support from the government. 

INTERNATIONAL

President Donald Trump watches a flyover by the U.S. Navy Blue Angles at Mount Rushmore National Memorial Alex Brandon / PA Images Alex Brandon / PA Images / PA Images

#INDEPENDENCE DAY: US President Donald Trump attacked protesters and “cancel culture” in a speech at Mount Rushmore. 

#BACK AGAIN: Pubs and barbers re-opened today on England’s “super Saturday”. 

#EPSTEIN: A friend of Ghislaine Maxwell has claimed she will “never” say anything about Prince Andrew to investigators. 

PARTING SHOT

Boxing has been under the spotlight in a negative way in recent weeks, due to Daniel Kinahan’s links to the recently-announced clash between heavyweights Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.

On the42.ie today, the ever-insightful Gavan Casey takes a look at how so many boxing figures take the moral high ground when it comes to the sanctity of human life – until doing so might inconvenience them personally.