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

IRELAND

• Following on from the London attack, Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said an attack in Ireland is ‘unlikely’ and gardaí are ‘fully in control of situation’.
• Two men are due to appear before a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court this evening after explosives were seized in Dublin on Friday.
• A man in his 20s has died in an early-morning crash in Co Mayo. Two other people, also in their 20s, have been taken to hospital with serious injuries.
• A man in his late teens has been arrested after trying to hijack an ambulance in Dublin this morning.
• A €226 million building activation scheme is about making housing more affordable, not building more affordable housing, the Department of Housing has said.
• An order of nuns has sold a well-known nursing home in south Dublin to the private healthcare firm behind one of the city’s biggest facilities.
• Three people were rescued off the coast of Wexford yesterday after the yacht they were in started to sink.

INTERNATIONAL 

Armed police descend an escalator at the foot of the Shard outside London Bridge station, near the scene of last night's terrorist incident. Dominic Lipinski Dominic Lipinski

#LONDON: Seven people have been killed and 48 injured in a terror attack in London last night, 21 of those injured are in a critical condition. Three suspects were shot dead by police.

#MANCHESTER: Meanwhile, police in Manchester arrested an 18th person in connection with the Ariana Grande concert bombing in which 22 people were killed almost two weeks ago.

#GERMANY: A five-year-old child was stabbed to death by an Afghan national at a refugee shelter in southeastern Germany.

PARTING SHOT 

Street artist Joe Caslin has released ‘The Volunteers,’ a new collaborative multimedia piece of public art and film at Dublin’s Trinity College Front Square.

It’s the first of a three-part series about the vital importance of volunteerism in tackling some of Ireland’s most pressing issues: drug addiction, mental health, and direct provision.