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

IRELAND

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín speaking at the party's Ard Fheis at the City North hotel in Gormanstown. Alan Rowlette / © RollingNews.ie Alan Rowlette / © RollingNews.ie / © RollingNews.ie

• Tributes have been paid to 18-year-old Luke Silles, who passed away yesterday following a swimming accident last week. 
• A woman in her 70s was killed in a fatal collision with a tractor in Co Clare this afternoon.
• Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan is to make a public apology to the family of Shane O’Farrell, a young cyclist who was killed after being struck by a car in 2011, on Tuesday. 
• A female tourist, just arrived in Dublin, was left bruised and bleeding after a man punched her face without warning in a gender-targeted daylight attack on Friday and “calmly” walked away, a court heard.
• The man who was arrested yesterday as part of the investigation into the 2022 explosion in Creeslough, Co Donegal, that left ten people dead has been released without charge. 
• The plane believed to have carried eight illegally deported people from the United States earlier this week returned to Shannon Airport this morning.
• A pedestrian has been seriously injured in a road traffic collision in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford this afternoon.
• Aontú hosted their Ard Fheis in Co Meath this evening, where government spending, immigration policies, and the recent referendums dominated conversation, RTÉ reported from the event.

INTERNATIONAL

Cadets listen as President Donald Trump, seen on screen, speaks to United States Military Academy graduating cadets during commencement ceremonies in West Point, New York. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#GERMANY: A German woman accused of a mass stabbing attack that wounded 18 people at a train station in Hamburg suffers from mental illness, police have said.

#ISRAELI STRIKES: The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been taken to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza ‘s health ministry said on Saturday, a toll that does not include hospitals in the battered north which it said were now inaccessible.

#TARIFFS: The EU’s trade chief has said following talks with his US counterparts yesterday that the bloc would work in “good faith” for a trade deal with Washington based on “respect” not “threats”.

#UKRAINE: At least eight people were wounded in a drone and missile attack on Kyiv overnight, city authorities said, just as Russia and Ukraine were in the middle of a major prisoner swap.

PARTING SHOT

Arsenal's Katie McCabe (left) dribbles past Barcelona's Caroline Graham Hansen. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

ARSENAL PRODUCED A shock 1-0 victory over Barcelona to win the women’s Champions League in Lisbon.

Republic of Ireland captain Katie McCabe played the full 98 minutes for the Gunners as they overcame the odds for a famous victory that stopped Pere Romeu’s Barca from claiming the trophy for a third consecutive season.

You can read the full match report here.