LAST UPDATE | 15 Jul

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

IRELAND

A quieter moment during today's standoff in Coolock, which saw 15 arrested and several garda cars smashed by anti-immigration protesters.

• 15 people in Coolock were charged following clashes at a site of anti-immigrant protests.
• Taoiseach Simon Harris condemned what he called the “reprehensible” and “criminal” actions in Coolock.
• Sinn Féin’s immigration policy is set to be set out in stone but the party continues to deny turning right, as our Political Editor Christina Finn explains.
• The HSE will lift its recruitment freeze but a “staffing ceiling” was criticised by doctors.
• Children removed from their family home were subjected to controversial ‘immersion therapy’, Noteworthy revealed.
• A junior minister has defended comments about increasing defence spending, saying it’s “not necessary” to cancel public holidays to boost the budget.
• The ISPCA said it was concerned that dog abandonment could be the result of new legislation banning XL Bully dogs.

INTERNATIONAL

A colour guard at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

#US ELECTIONS: Ohio senator and ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author JD Vance was announced as Donald Trump’s pick for Vice President.

#SPAIN: Tenerife police said a body was found during their search for missing British teenager Jay Slater.

PARTING SHOT

As the world learned of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump over the weekend, it was quickly greeted by gripping images of the 78-year-old, bloodied but his first raised defiantly, while surrounded by Secret Service bodyguards.

The man who took those photos was Evan Vucci, chief photographer for Associated Press.

Previously, he covered the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and has said that the experience in combat zones made it much easier to focus and get the job done.

“I’ve been in these situations before, that experience does help, trying to stay calm, trying to understand that you have a job to do.”

You can read more about Vucci here.