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

IRELAND

Pictured are protestors marching from Summerhill Parade to the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin today, after housing activists were evicted from the houses they have been occupying since last week. Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie Sam Boal / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• Dublin rent prices were confirmed as being higher than boom-time rates
• The Primate of All-Ireland said he thinks Pope Francis will meet abuse survivors
• A cyclist was hit by a truck in Dublin
• Dozens of emails between the former Justice Minister and a PR firm were discovered
• Activists occupied a second house in Dublin
• A man died in a road collision in Kildare
• A High Court challenge was launched against the appointment of the new Garda Commissioner
• Gardaí seized €50,000 worth of cocaine in Laois
• A memorial to a murder victim was vandalised

INTERNATIONAL

People gather near a makeshift memorial at the nameplate for singer Aretha Franklin outside the Apollo Theatre. Frank Franklin II Frank Franklin II

#ITALY: Anger rose in Italy as workers were continuing the desperate search for people still missing after the Genoa bridge collapse, which left at least 38 people dead.

#POSTPONED: Donald Trump’s military parade planned for later this year has been postponed until at least 2019, a defence official has said, following reports the cost had soared to over $90 million (€79 million).

#TRIBUTES: Americans, particularly those in Detroit, continued to pay their respects to Aretha Franklin, who died yesterday.

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