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

IRELAND

File photo of Eamon Cooke at the Clondalkin headquarters of his pirate radio station. Collins Agency Collins Agency

• Gardaí believe children were coerced into placing missing Philip Cairns’ bag in a laneway.
• Fifteen businesses run by the same family company across the midlands and west of Ireland have been closed with over 200 jobs lost.
• A court has heard that a man told his wife “I can rape you if I want” before threatening to cut her face open.
• Donald Trump will come to Ireland next week if he can find the time.
• An Irishman who was missing for almost 24 hours in Paris while attending the Euro 2016 football tournament has been found safe and well.
• David Cameron has said that if the UK leaves the EU, there will be either land borders between the north and south of Ireland or passport checks in Belfast.
• A number of people have been injured after the roof of an archway at Temple Bar appears to have partially collapsed.
• Over half of Irish consumers get their news from social media.

INTERNATIONAL 

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#DISNEY WORLD: Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings has confirmed that some 50 people are now “working on recovering the body” of a two-year-old boy snatched by an alligator.

#LILLE: French police used tear gas to disperse English soccer fans at the European Championship earlier today.

#SOUTH AFRICA: Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp on 6 July. During a hearing today, he was asked to walk around the courtroom without his prosthetics.

INNOVATION

• Facebook sees a future where it can literally read your thoughts.
• There’s a simple rule that can help you improve your photos.

PARTING SHOT 

A Dublin man filmed a second of his life every day for eight months for this lovely proposal.