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

IRELAND

The Tremble Tremble exhibition at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin was lunched today.Source: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

• Irish boxer Katie Taylor released a statement about the shooting of her father.
• The Bray Boxing Club where the shooting took place was searched extensively by gardaí.
• UK figures showed that 3,091 women and girls travelled from Ireland to England and Wales for abortions in 2017.
• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar defended himself against unionists and others about his involvement in a Belfast festival.
• Editors from the Irish Daily Mail gave evidence before the Charleton Tribunal.
• Ireland's top 20 tourist attractions, both fee paying and free, were revealed.
• The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission lost its Supreme Court appeal over abortion laws in the six counties.
• Enda Kenny is set to receive the European Movement Ireland’s European of the Year Award.
• Bathers have been warned about swimming at three Dublin beaches following overflowing wastewater at a pumping station.
• Gardaí made a renewed appeal for information about the disappearance of Matthew Carroll 30 years ago.

WORLD

Acrobats from Cirque Berserk help launch the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Jane Barlow / PA Images Jane Barlow / PA Images / PA Images

#BREXIT: The UK government has proposed that a “backstop” plan to be put in place should there be no Brexit border deal would end in 2021.

#RIP: Renowned English nightclub owner Peter Stringfellow died at the age of 77.

#SWEDEN: An Uzbek man who drove a stolen truck into a crowd in Stockholm, killing five people and wounding 14 others, was given a life sentence.

PARTING SHOT

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