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

IRELAND

Noah Carty and TJ Sibanda enjoying the homecoming for the All-Ireland champions Clare this evening in Ennis. Tom Maher / INPHO Tom Maher / INPHO / INPHO

• The Taoiseach paid tribute to 11-year-old Clodagh Phelan who died on holiday in Majorca.
• Taxi driver Raymond Shorten, who was convicted last month for raping two passengers, was sentenced to 13 years for rape of seven-year-old girl.
• The Central Criminal Court heard that a teenage boy bludgeoned 51-year-old Lorna Woodnutt to death before posting a video and taking a selfie with her lifeless body.
• A man accused of keeping his dead father in a freezer in the family home was remanded in custody in Derry.
• Gardaí investigating last week’s riot in Coolock found “incendiary devices” clustered around the grass in the aftermath.
• It emerged that the owner of the Coolock site at the centre of controversy has received received millions from Department for provision of accommodation.
• Multiple child sexual abuse allegations have been made against the late former bishop Eamonn Casey according to a documentary due to be published tonight.
• The operator of Carton House has appealed a conviction for damaging protected habitat to remove wasps’ nest.

INTERNATIONAL

Kamala Harris arriving to speak from the lawn of the White House in her first public appearance since President Joe Biden endorsed her to be the next presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#HASHTAG: Endorsements and campaign funding poured in for Kamala Harris after she won the backing of president Joe Biden.

#CROATIA SHOOTING: Five people were killed in a Croatian nursing home after a gunman opened fire.

#HASHTAG: Caoilfhionn Gallagher, a human rights lawyer and barrister, looks at how ‘influencer-washing Dubai’
has erected a glitzy facade to hide its human rights abuses.

PARTING SHOT

Supporters gave a heroes’ welcome to the Clare hurlers after their All-Ireland Final win over Cork yesterday.

Brian Lohan’s side were greeted by thousands as they arrived into Ennis this evening following their first Liam McCarthy win in 11 years.

The best photos capturing the homecoming can be enjoyed here.

Elsewhere, The Journal writer Carl Kinsella looked at how yesterday’s epic was a snapshot of a vibrant culture in Ireland at a time when there are regular warnings about Ireland facings threats from within.