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

Lifeguards on duty at Seapoint where a no swim order has been imposed because of the quality of the water. Rollingnews.ie Rollingnews.ie

• There are growing concerns among gardaí and security officials that renewed international attention on a Russian-owned factory in Co Limerick could increase the risk of protests or an attack on the facility, sources have said. 
• The value of regulated online betting in Ireland has breached the €1 billion mark in a single quarter for the first time, in the same period that the value of traditional betting hit a sharp decline. 
• Locals in a Co Carlow town say they’re devastated after the developer behind a new social housing estate switched almost half the new homes to the private market, weeks before they were expected to become available.
• The chair of the Oireachtas Committee on Sport is to raise the fallout from the Youghal Ironman tragedy with fellow members this week, ahead of a possible invite for both Sport Ireland and Triathlon Ireland to appear before it. 
• A lifeboat crew in West Cork raced to the scene of a boat fire off the Irish coast this afternoon.
• A teenage boy arrested in connection with a garda investigation into the fatal stabbing of 21-year-old Qayyum Balogun has been released without charge.
• Marion Fossett, who was leader of Ireland’s oldest circus has died, her family have said.
• The PSNI is investigating reports of a “racially-motivated” arson on the Shankill Road in Belfast.
• Omniplex has been ordered to more than double the compensation it must pay to a former manager who is autistic after appealing a previous Workplace Relations Commission ruling.
• Parents who do not share the same surname as their children are being forced to carry their child’s birth certificate when travelling, says a Fine Gael TD who wants to propose legislation if a solution isn’t found. 

INTERNATIONAL

A biplane performing at an airshow in the Czech Republic today. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#MIDDLE EAST New attack in the Middle East on Friday threatened to unravel an already fragile US-Iran ceasefire, even as American officials confirmed that Tehran’s football players had received visas for the World Cup. 

#LEBANON Several soldiers have been killed in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in south Lebanon, Beirut’s military today said, days after the two countries announced a conditional truce following talks in the United States.

#AUSTRALIA A shark killed a diver off the coast of Western Australia on Saturday, police said, the country’s fourth fatal shark attack this year.

PARTING SHOT

KATIE TAYLOR’S CROKE Park swansong was officially announced yesterday.

The light-welterweight world champion from Bray will face undefeated French fighter Flora Pili on Saturday, 5 September.

It will bring the curtain down on a legendary sporting career and see Taylor become the first boxer to headline a prizefight at Croke Park since Muhammad Ali defeated Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in 1972.

Tickets will officially be released on Friday, 12 June, with prices ranging from €38.70 right up to €1,505.50.

In today’s poll we asked to know, will you try to get tickets for Katie Taylor’s final fight?

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