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Here's What Happened Today: Monday

The homeless crisis, Kevin McGuigan’s murder and suicides linked to the Ashley Madison hack had people talking.

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

23/8/2015 A FIVE-YEAR-OLD boy and two adults were The scene of a fire in Dublin which saw a child and two adults taken to hospital. Dublin Fire Brigade / RollingNews.ie Dublin Fire Brigade / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

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Britain Plane Crash Ground staff from Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club look at a shirt and flowers they laid in memory of their ground staff colleague Matt Grimstone, killed in the plane disaster Saturday. Associated Press Associated Press

#ASHLEY MADISON: Two suicides have been linked to the website hack.

#SHOREHAM AIR SHOW: Nine more bodies could be found in the air show wreckage.

#QUEENS: A bus driver is critical and several others are injured after a bus crashed into a building in New York.

#WANTED: A man with an Irish accent is wanted in connection with an attack in the UK that left a man with a broken jaw.

#DESTRUCTION: Islamic State blew up a 2,000-year-old temple.

#CALM DOWN: One Direction might be breaking up and some people are not taking it well at all.

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PARTING SHOT

We already knew St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin was stunning but this drone footage shows just how spectacular it is:

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