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News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

The bodies of an elderly couple found in Mayo, talks ongoing to avert garda strikes, and the battle for Mosul begins – it’s the Evening Fix.

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

IRELAND

LR GARDA STRIKE 758A5350 A press conference about the proposed garda strikes on Friday. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

WORLD

Mideast Iraq Mosul Felipe Dana / PA Images Felipe Dana / PA Images / PA Images

#BATTLE FOR MOSUL: Iraqi forces entered the outskirts of Mosul, as they begin their attempts to drive Islamic State militants from the northern city. [BBC]

#US ELECTION: CNN has let analyst Donna Brazile go after emails showed that she shared questions with Hillary Clinton’s campaign ahead of media events.

#BRITAIN: The former deputy leader of the Tory party has called reports from the BBC that he had strangled his mother’s dog a “terrible misrepresentation”.

INNOVATION

  • Constantly using our smartphones has become the norm, but one of the lesser known perils of constant smart phone use is that they may actually make us blind.

PARTING SHOT

TG4 are known for their creative ways of showing the weather (check out the Twitter account An Aimsir Láithreach). But this weather forecast on Halloween night was particularly impressive. Lean leis an dea-obair!

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