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

Spain's King Felipe and Princess Letizia visit some of the victims of the van attacks at a hospital in Barcelona AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

IRELAND

• There’s a rainfall warning in place for tomorrow.
• A councillor wants a memorial to an Irish Confederate major removed from Tuam Town Hall
• Spanish royals met with the Irish survivors of the Barcelona terror attack
• Gardaí searched Youghal Port as part of their search for missing woman Tina Satchwell
• A man was seriously injured in a north Dublin car crash
• A man robbed a shop, crashed the getaway car, fired a gun, hijacked a car, crashed and was hospitalised in Laois
• British spies are keeping tabs on potential extremists in Ireland
• An Irishman was stabbed in Wolverhampton

INTERNATIONAL

A woman holds a placard reading in Catalan: Not in my name, as families of young men believed responsible for the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils gather along with members of the local Muslim community to denounce terrorism in Ripoll, Spain AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#SPAIN More details are emerging about the suspects in the Spanish terror attacks. Police say the terrorists were planning a bigger attack.

#ROMAN POLANSKI Roman Polanski is in a legal bid to return to the US

#RUSSIA A knife attacker injured seven in an incident that was not terror-related.

#FINLAND The perpetrator in the terror attack targeted women, say police

PARTING SHOT

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