Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday

Water charges to be refunded, and gangland hit foiled in Dublin – it’s the Fix.

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

IRELAND

Water charges refund Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy announcing that refunds of water charges will be paid out before the end of the year at Government Buildings today Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

Irish Water is set to refund water charges to customers in time for Christmas.
An apparent attempt at a gangland hit has been foiled in Dublin.
The Taoiseach’s new ‘strategic communications unit’ has been officially announced.
Skeletal remains were discovered at a house in Dundalk.
Sean Spicer has claimed to be ‘one of the most popular guys in Ireland’.
A man is in critical condition in hospital after being pulled from the Grand Canal in Dublin after last Sunday’s All Ireland hurling final.
There have been fresh calls for the Garda Commissioner to step down after it emerged that an additional 500,000 more breath tests were faked than was previously suspected.
A man in his 20s has died two weeks after being struck by a car on Adelaide Road in Dublin.
Ireland is in the EU’s top 10 countries for money laundering and terrorist financing.
Ryanair will only permit one small bag on board under its new rules.
A vigil for a homeless man who died last week was cancelled amid reports he had a string of sex crime convictions.

WORLD

Indonesia Myanmar Protest A Muslim woman holds a poster of Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Medan, Indonesia, today Binsar Bakkara / PA Images Binsar Bakkara / PA Images / PA Images

#IRMA: People have been urged to take shelter as the most powerful Atlantic storm in history gets set to make landfall.

#MYANMAR: Aung San Suu Kyi has blamed the Rohingya crisis on ‘false information’.

#EXTREMELY HARD: UK newspapers revealed leaked documents outlining plans for an ‘extreme form of hard Brexit’.

PARTING SHOT

President Higgins received Almuthna, a Syrian university lecturer and now a refugee in Ireland.

Read why here: https://t.co/ve5ZO8DzQu pic.twitter.com/Ls2Tlzgr5O
— President of Ireland (@PresidentIRL) September 6, 2017

President of Ireland / Twitter

Syrian Almuthna Loulah, a university lecturer in his home country who is currently based in the government’s refugee reception centre in Ballaghaderreen, Co Roscommon, today presented President Michael D Higgins with a violin he had constructed at Áras an Uachtaráin.

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