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

IRELAND

Ceejay McArdle was an honorary garda for the day at the Templemore passing out parade Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

• A 20 year-old man arrested was over a shooting in Tallaght.
• A woman was arrested over the shooting of Michael Barr at the Sunset House in April.
• A man was arrested following a stabbing in Dublin city centre today.
• A government expenditure increase of half a billion euro for 2016 was approved.
• Labour’s frontbench was announced and there was a reshuffle of jobs.
• A man died in an accident at a farm in Cork.
• A student was awarded over €10,000 when security guards entered the toilet he was using in Heuston train station.

WORLD

Four-year-old Killian Gonzalez who is making a full recovery after being 'internally decapitated' after a crash in Idaho Killian and Brandy's Recovery Fund Killian and Brandy's Recovery Fund

#FULL RECOVERY A four-year-old boy whose skull was severed from his spine in a car accident in Idaho last month is expected to make a full recovery.

#SUSPENDED  Tennis star Maria Sharapova was given a two-year ban for a failed drug test.

#FIRST LADY Hillary Clinton won California’s Democratic primary which secured enough delegates for her to become the Democratic presidential nominee.

#STANFORD CASE One of the students who stopped the rape of an unconscious woman spoke out about Brock Turner.

INNOVATION

• Research has found that driving while on the phone with a hands-free device can be as distracting as talking on a hand-held phone.
• Google has improved one of the forgotten iPhone 6 features, Live Photos, with an app of its own.

PARTING SHOT

If you were out at sea this weekend you might have been lucky enough to see scenes like these.

Peter Sweeney and Lisa Moran caught this view of dolphins off the west and south-west coasts of Ireland – check them out:

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