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

IRELAND

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• A 19-year-old man been charged after slurry was spread on streets in Ballymena and shopfronts have allegedly been vandalised with spray paint ahead of a Pride parade that is due to take place in the Co Antrim town this afternoon.
• Former Fianna Fáil minister Mary Hanafin has said that she’s “in the mix” for the party’s presidential nomination. 
• A man has died after being struck by a car on Balbutcher Lane, Ballymun, Dublin 11 in the early hours of this morning.
• Gardaí fear drug gangs in Ireland have made connections with a gun supplier who’s providing criminals with lethal ‘throw away’ 3D-printed plastic guns, The Journal has learned. 
• A man has been remanded in custody after being charged with conspiring to pose as driving theory test candidates in a learner permit fraud.
• More than 100 climbers gathered at the summit of Croagh Patrick today for a special blessing to mark the final ascent of a 5-peak challenge honouring the life of James McNeive. 

INTERNATIONAL

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#IRAN: Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of Tehran today for the funerals of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel.

#GLASTO: Belfast rap trio Kneecap packed out the West Holts stage at the Glastonbury Festival, leading to event organisers telling festival-goers to avoid the area.

#GAZA: At least 72 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza, the health ministry there has said.

#HUNGARY: As hundreds of thousands gathered for Pride in Hungary, Lauren Boland reports from Budapest on the current conditions for LGBTQ+ people living in the country as Viktor Orbán’s government cracks down on their rights.

PARTING SHOT

A scene from the 1988 Pride march. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

FIFTY-ONE YEARS AGO, on a mild, dry day in late June, a small group of less than a dozen people marched through Dublin to protest outside the British embassy.

It was 1974 – the year the Ladies’ Gaelic Football Association was founded, the year of the UVF’s Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the year that Transition Year was first introduced to secondary schools – and the ten activists who took to the streets on the 27th of June were fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.

At the time, same-sex relations were criminalised under the law, and they had been so since the 1800s under legislation that the British state imposed on Ireland which the fledgling Irish State had never repealed.

Lauren Boland reports on the history of Dublin Pride, and how it came to be what it is today.