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

Feena Sheeran (left) and Lorraine Leonard, in the Grand Canal Dock, training for the Irish Senior Women's Team for the European Dragon Boat championships in Munich, Germany. Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

• Gardaí are investigating an incident of criminal damage after a fire broke out at an Islamic prayer hall in Dublin city
• Government leaders are due to decide this evening how to begin winding back the temporary fuel excise cuts introduced after April’s nationwide fuel protests
• Heavy metal band Metallica donated €80,000, split between two charities, while they were in Dublin last week
• Fianna Fáil councillor Daryl Barron has been chosen as the next lord mayor of Dublin
• The jury in the trial of Riad Bouchaker have been told they can return alternative verdicts in relation to the allegation that he attempted to murder three children on Parnell Square in 2023
• A man who fell into the Inner Dock in Dublin’s north inner city drowned despite his friend managing to hold his head above the water for around 40 minutes before they were rescued, an inquest has heard
• A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a rapid transit bus, known as a Glider, was set on fire in Belfast earlier this month.
• A former sports coach who is accused of sexually abusing four children in the 1970s and 1980s told gardaí when he was charged that he had never heard of two of the girls
• Roberto ‘Pico’ Lopes’ family will be flying out to Florida this Friday for Cape Verde’s World Cup knockout match against defending champions Argentina, thanks to Aer Lingus, his mother has said. 

INTERNATIONAL

A man sits amid earthquake rubble in La Guaira, Venezuela. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#FATAL COLLISION: Three Irish people have died after a collision in Spain on Sunday.

#STADE: Six people have been killed in a shooting at a youth welfare centre in the northern German city of Stade. 

#TRUMP: The Supreme Court has rejected a push by US president Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused the writer E Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.

PARTING SHOT

In The Journal’s brand-new Car Clinic series, DoneDeal Cars Paddy Comyn will answer all your motoring questions and queries. 

Here’s this week’s question:

Probably the question you get asked the most – but I am thinking of changing my car. I currently own a 2010 golf with over 230k miles on the clock. It is still running well, but it might be time to change. 

I am a father of three small kids and between work and their activities I am on the road a lot. I am not into flashy cars just looking for a comfortable, low maintenance car to get me from A to B. 

Read more here.