LAST UPDATE | 3 Jul 2018

EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.

1. #DAMAGE: Engineers hired by Dublin City Council to assess a block of apartments where a staircase has moved and cracked believe the structural damage has been present for a long period of time.

2. #THAILAND: 12 boys and their football coach found alive in a Thai cave will be supplied with four months’ worth of food and get diving training, the military has said.

3. #STABBING: A three-year-old girl who was stabbed at her birthday party in Idaho, US has died, according to authorities.

4. #BUS CONNECTS: A radical redesign for the Dublin Bus network which was unveiled yesterday and which would transform how people travel around the city could come into effect “overnight”.

5. #POPE: A man who said he had secured almost 700 tickets as part of a Facebook campaign group to boycott Pope Francis’ Phoenix Park mass says he has changed his position on the campaign.

6. #COURTS: A Kerry man who broke into a 73-year-old woman’s home and raped her twice has lost an appeal against the severity of his 13-year prison sentence.

7. #NORTH KOREA: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will return to North Korea this week to flesh out the bare bones nuclear agreement between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-Un.

8. #WEATHER: Met Éireann has said that its indications suggest that the dry, hot and settled weather will persist well into next week.

9. #BONO: U2 frontman Bono has warned that the United Nations and other international institutions including the European Union and NATO are under threat – and nations must work together to ensure their continued existence.