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

IRELAND

Councillor Daithi Doolan and his sons enjoying National Play Day in Merrion Square, Dublin Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography Chris Bellew / Fennell Photography / Fennell Photography

• Gerry Adams asked the UK to not reinstate direct rule from Westminster in Northern Ireland.
• A search is underway in Canada for an Irishman who went missing while swimming.
• There were calls for a Bray housing estate where seven residents have died in house fires to be included in the new fire safety review.
• Minister Michael Creed called the UK’s withdrawal from an international fisheries agreement “unhelpful and unwelcome“.
• Six people were rescued from a boat experiencing difficulties off the Cork coast.
• Police in Northern Ireland are treating a devastating fire at a Belfast factory as suspicious.
• A 12-year-old boy from Mayo was the first-ever patient to be transported in the BUMBLEair helicopter.

WORLD

An athlete looks for her bike during the inaugural Edinburgh Ironman triathlon Jane Barlow / PA Wire/PA Images Jane Barlow / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#SYRIA: A suicide bomber killed 18 people after a car chase in Damascus.

#US: Donald Trump was accused of encouraging violence after posting a doctored video of himself attacking a person with CNN’s logo superimposed over their face.

#INDIA: A woman who survived an alleged gang rape and four separate acid attacks has once again been hit by corrosive liquid, police said.

PARTING SHOT

To mark Canada Day yesterday, thousands of people gathered at an intersection in the city of Winnipeg to create the country’s “largest living maple leaf”.

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You can watch the full time-lapse video on the BBC’s website.

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