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

IRELAND

The 112th Bloomsday began today with celebrations worldwide to mark the day depicted in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Ruth Medjber Ruth Medjber

• A Northern Irish fan collapsed and died during the team’s historic victory over Ukraine at the European Championships tonight.
• The mother of missing boy Philip Cairns said she would forgive Eamon Cooke, the paedophile linked with his presumed death. 
• The government has said it will tackle waste companies trying to use a new pay-per-weight system to charge their customers more.
• Taoiseach Enda Kenny left for Liverpool today to urge the Irish community there to vote to stay in EU.
• A man in his 20s was taken to hospital after being stabbed in Dublin this morning.
• GSOC Commissioner Kieran Fitzgerald is in a coma after falling onto rocks in Spain.
• Comedian David McSavage was fined €125 for not paying his TV licence arears.
• Gardaí foiled a charity scam in Kerry which involved collections for a suicide awareness organisation.
• Most people in Ireland trust An Garda Siochána according to a survey published today.

INTERNATIONAL 

British Labour MP Jo Cox. Yui Mok Yui Mok

#BRITAIN Labour MP Jo Cox died today after being shot and stabbed on the street near the library where she was holding an advice clinic.

#AMERICA US Democrats ended their 14-hour filibuster on gun laws.

#FRANCE Twenty Russian football fans are to be expelled from France following violence at a match in Marseille last week.

#MEDITERRANEAN Irish naval ship, LÉ Róisín, rescued more than 100 people from the Mediterranean.

#BRITAIN Singer Cliff Richard will will not be prosecuted after an investigation of historical sex abuse because of insufficient evidence.

INNOVATION

• iPhones will be able to track your car’s location with the next iOS system.
• Former RTÉ journalist Mark Little is set to become the new head of Twitter’s Irish operations.

PARTING SHOT 

Billionaire and founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, wishes to build a city on Mars. His goal is to send humans to the red planet by 2025.