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

IRELAND

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• Ireland takes on Italy tonight hoping to get to the knockout stages of Euro 2016.
• A bill to repeal the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution has been launched by the Anti-Austerity Alliance/People Before Profit.
• A man on trial for raping and assaulting his wife has denied calling a garda ‘you f***er’ at the trial.
• A man’s body found washed up on the rocks at Aughinish, Co Clare at the weekend has been identified as an 86-year-old retiree after gardaí issued an appeal.
• US Vice-President Joe Biden visited his ancestral home of Co Mayo today to pay homage to his roots.
• Housing minister Simon Coveney has opened new housing for homeless people on Seán McDermott Street Lower in Dublin city centre.
• Dublin’s sky-high rents have made it one of Europe’s most expensive cities to live in.
• A new report has found that Irish people drink the equivalent of 29 litres of vodka each a year.
• The body of an elderly woman named Kathleen Reilly has been found after she went missing six days ago, gardaí said.

INTERNATIONAL

A graffiti mural of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson kissing in Bristol. The image is called 'The Kiss of Death' and was painted by a pro-EU campaign group We Are Europe. Ben Birchall Ben Birchall

#AUSTRALIA: Teenage recruits in the Australian military were forced to rape each other, often as part of brutal initiation practices, a public inquiry into child sex abuse heard yesterday.

#UK: Drugs mule Melissa Reid has been released from prison in Peru and is flying back to the UK.

#NEW YORK: The city is on track to offer free tampons and sanitary pads in public schools, homeless shelters and jails after lawmakers.

INNOVATION

• Social networks have been temporarily blocked throughout Algeria in an effort to stop students cheating in high school exams.
• Dublin Airport has been named the most accessible airport in Europe.

PARTING SHOT

Every so often, Channel 4′s Countdown throws up a gem.

Sometimes it’s a bold word and sometimes it’s a word that you haven’t heard in a while.

Today it was ‘sliotar’ and the contestants made an absolute hames of pronouncing it.