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Here’s What Happened Today: Friday

Everybody’s talking about Irish Water applications, the tragic Kildare crash and the shooting in a US high school…

Updated 23.00pm

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

Bram Stoker Festival Launch. Pictured The Bram Stoker Festival launched today. Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

IRISH

  • The Energy Regulator said the deadline for water charges applications will be extended until the end of November.
  • A man was charged over the killing of an elderly couple at their Donegal home.
  • The woman killed in a road accident involving a Garda car chase in Kildare last night was named as Diana Harton.
  • An appeal by Liam Adams against his conviction for raping his daughter will take place next year. [RTÉ]
  • Dublin City Council is confiscating timber and tyres in the run up to Halloween.
  • The chances of Ebola reaching Ireland are very low.
  • Permanent TSB will need to find €800 million after failing bank stress test.
  • The Minister for Time has reminded us to put the clocks back on Sunday.
  • A row between two families resulted in a stabbing at Cork University Hospital.
  • People were awarded for acts of bravery today.
  • A local GAA club is helping out Orange Lodge after a vicious arson attack.
  • A video of two priests in an epic Irish dancing battle has gone viral.

INTERNATIONAL

Ebola NYC Doctor Todd Powers, the owner of The Gutter bowling alley, speaks to the media outside his establishment that remains closed in New York because is was visited by Craig Spencer, a physician who tested positive for the Ebola virus. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#US: A doctor in New York who recently returned from West Africa has tested positive for Ebola.

#SEATTLE: A shooter opened fire at a US high school.

#UK: Prime minister David Cameron said there’s no way England is paying a surprise bill from the EU.

#NEW YORK: A man who charged at four police officers with a hatchet was shot dead.

INNOVATION

  • Always wanted a go on the hover board in Back to the Future? Here’s how one works. [Wired.com]
  • Facebook has launched a new, anonymous chat room app.

PARTING SHOT

This law professor who teaches human rights law went to Ferguson to protect protesters and ended up getting arrested himself. [Vox.com]

First published 21.00pm

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