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

IRELAND

Zuzanna Sitco (7), Oliwia Maccadowska (6) and Kacper Lisowski (7) with Deputy Francis Fitzgerald at the opening of Adamstown Community Centre Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• Gardaí have renewed their appeal for witnesses after a man was killed in an early morning hit-and-run in Swords, Dublin.
• A juvenile has been arrested over the death of a man whose body was found at Butler Park in Tallaght, Dublin.
• An elderly woman has died following a house fire in Meath this afternoon.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has instructed Fine Gael members to bring forward six autumn selection conventions to July so the party will be ready to fight a snap election if needed, the Sunday Times reports.
• A new headstone bearing the names of children – and one mum – who died in the Bethany Home mother and baby home will be erected in Dublin’s Mount Jerome cemetery next week.
• Writing in TheJournal.ie, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan said that if prison does not serve and rehabilitate offenders, they will “return to life as before, or worse“.
• Ireland could experience dust devils, which look like whirlwinds, this week as temperatures are set to be still, calm and hot – the perfect conditions for them.

INTERNATIONAL

Sarah Sanders Michael Brochstein / SIPA USA/PA Images Michael Brochstein / SIPA USA/PA Images / SIPA USA/PA Images

#EU: Italy’s Interior Minister is defending Italy’s decision to ask the Libyan coast guard to rescue an estimated 1,000 migrants without the help of aid groups.

#UK: Police in London are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed last night.

#US: A Virginia restaurant has been inundated with reviews from both ends of the political spectrum after White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said its owner asked her to leave because of her job.

#SAUDI ARABIA: Women in Saudi Arabia are able to drive for the first time in decades after a ban was finally lifted.

PARTING SHOT

The Weston Air Festival at Weston Bay, Weston-super-Mare was on this weekend. Here are some spectacular photos from the event.