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Here's What Happened Today: Thursday

Water charges, the Lenihan-Trichet letters and radio figures: here’s what everyone’s been talking about.

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INTERNATIONAL 

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#PHIL RUDD: The AC/DC drummer has been arrested for trying to arrange murders.

#OXFORD STREET: A man died after falling from an escalator in a busy Debenhams store.

#UK: Burglars held a knife to a 15-month-old baby before stealing cash and jewellery.

INNOVATION

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  • The CEO of Dublin’s Web Summit says if the dodgy WiFi isn’t fixed ‘we won’t be in this country much longer’. [TheJournal.ie]

PARTING SHOT

It has taken 10 years  covering 6.5 billion km to plan to land a spacecraft on to a comet.

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