Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

A stabbing in Cork, a protest at Áras an Uachtaráin, and another missing plane had everyone talking today.

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

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Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

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A husband and wife died, and their daughter injured, in a stabbing in Cork.
President Michael D Higgins signed the Water Services Bill into law.
It prompted a small protest outside Áras an Uachtaráin.
It was really cold, and it’s going to get even colder.
A man died in a mobile home fire.
Hundreds of Irish holidaymakers were trapped at Chambery Airport.
It was revealed that children receiving some payments from their parents could be taxed.
A 12-year-old was arrested over the death of a man who was attack with a guitar in Belfast.
Detectives renewed an appeal for information about a 1996 murder.
The State Papers covered everything from rubber-bullets, to selling water to Saudi Arabia.

INTERNATIONAL

Winter weather Dec 28th 2014 Jacko the pony enjoys the snow in a field in Langley, near Macclesfield. PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#QZ8501: The search continued for an AirAsia plane that disappeared off radar last night.

#ADRIATIC SEA: Hundreds are still trapped on board a burning ferry. One body has been recovered.

#AFGHANISTAN: The war officially came to an end.

#GAZA: Hamas blocked a group of children whose parents had died in recent conflict from travelling to Israel on a conciliatory trip. [Haaretz]

INNOVATION

Sony admitted the Playstation network was hacked.
Nasa is working on airship-like balloons to hover over the surface of Venus. [The Independent]
Whooping cough is ‘evolving fast’, and could become resistant to existing vaccines. [BBC News]

PARTING SHOT

Yes yes yes, we know Christmas is over, but here, have a video of a dog that’s really good at opening presents.

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