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

IRELAND

The Bon Secours Hospital Fun Run at the University of Limerick. Don Moloney Don Moloney

• Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has “apologised unreservedly” for his response to concerns over the Waterford mortuary controversy. 
• An escalating west Dublin feud has seen a house gutted by fire and a takeaway driver caught up in a shooting in the past few days. 
• The Social Democrats have said that Ellie Kisyombe will run in the local elections after “correcting the chronology of her backstory”.
• Gardaí are to beef up security ahead of Prince Charles’ upcoming visit to Ireland due to the activity of dissident republicans.
• A driver clocked at 157 km/h on the M9 motorway who tested positive for drugs was one of a number of arrests on the roads this bank holiday weekend.
• Fire crews in Cork were deployed to a “potentially serious incident” that turned out to be smoke canister.

WORLD

Maha Vajiralongkorn was crowned as King Rama X in an elaborate ceremony in Thailand today. PA Images PA Images

#MIDDLE EAST: Militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel prompting a series of air strikes in the blockaded strip that left a baby dead. 

#KOREAN: South Korea has claimed that North Korea has test fired a number of short-range missiles, prompting Donald Trump to tweet faith in Kim Jong Un.

#FLORIDA: A Boeing 737 plane skidded off a runway and into a river after crash-landing during a lightning storm in Florida.

PARTING SHOT

Based in St. Anne’s Park in Raheny, an urban farm opened last week and hopes to encourage a love of nature and animals.

It is the first public urban farm within the Dublin City Council area and came about following a public consultation on the city’s climate action plan.