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News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

Tributes to rugby coach Anthony Foley, and Boris Johnson’s secret anti-Brexit letter – it’s the Evening Fix.

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

IRISH

Anthony Foley tributes Munster Rugby fans place tributes outside Thomond Park in Limerick today. Niall Carson / PA Images Niall Carson / PA Images / PA Images

WORLD

Tyson Gay-Daughter Killed David J. Phillip David J. Phillip

#TRINITY GAY: The 15-year-old daughter of Olympic sprinter Tyson Gay has been fatally shot in Lexington, South California.

#MAINE-ET-LOIRE: Four people were killed and 14 injured after a balcony collapsed in western France as young people were attending a housewarming party.

#AH BORIS: A column that the pro-Brexit Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wrote has been published – in which he argues the case for remaining in the EU.

INNOVATION

  • Rwanda, dubbed ‘the land of a thousand hills’, has begun using drones to help deliver medical care to rural parts of the country.
  • “This just got real” – Mark Zuckerberg’s response when Robert Downey Jr (aka Ironman) offered to voice his personal assistant. [Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Munster fans paid a poignant tribute to Anthony Foley outside Stade-Yves-du-Manoir today, in an emotional rendition of ‘The Fields of Athenry’, and ‘There is an Isle,’ a favourite of Foley’s Shannon RFC.

Murray Kinsella / YouTube