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

Anya Fitzgerald with Eoin age two and Kate aged six, enjoying the good weather at Seapoint in Dun Laoghaire today. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

IRELAND 

• The average cost of renting a property in Dublin is now €2,000 – but the Housing Minister says rents are rising at a slow rate.
• Garda statistics indicate winter burglaries have dropped by 50% in four years.
• A man was injured in a stabbing in Cork city.
• Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan prevented an anti-LGBT preacher from speaking in Ireland.
• The family of a teenage boy who was stabbed to death on Friday night thanked the public for their support.
• A man who raped a woman at a gaming convention lost his appeal against the length of his sentence.
• RTÉ received 31 complaints about a mannequin giving birth on the Late Late Show.
• Temperatures of up to 21 degrees are in store for most of this week. 

Sand sculpture artist Johannes Hogebrink works on a Brexit themed sculpture at the Weston Sand Sculpture Festival. Ben Birchall / PA Ben Birchall / PA / PA

WORLD

#GERMANY: Police are investigating the deaths of five people – three of whom were killed with crossbow bolts. 

#SWEDEN: Prosecutors announced they will reopen an inquiry into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange. 

#MIAMI: Charges were dropped against Conor McGregor in a case of alleged phone-snatching. 

#ENGLAND: The Jeremy Kyle Show has suspended recordings following the death of a participant. 

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It was confirmed today that screen icon Doris Day had died, aged 97. The Guardian took a look back at her most celebrated roles.