Here's What Happened Today: Monday

Westmeath murder conviction, Eir overcharging and Harvey Weinstein sacked.

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

IRELAND

Tayto Park Halloween Ghost Hunters Emily Donnell (10) from Meath at Tayto Park ahead of Halloween. Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

Westmeath man Danny Keena was convicted of murdering the mother of his children Brigid Maguire by “strangling the life out of her”.
Journalist David Walsh described Tom Humphries as ‘a great, great man’ afte r child sex allegations against him became public.
An Post has come in for criticism for a stamp commemorating Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara.
Phone company Eir has been fined €10,500 after it admitted overcharging customers.
Life extending drug nivolumab is now available to hundreds of Irish cancer patients.
The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the practice of shops asking for customer email addresses after complaints.
The most senior garda in Donegal was giving evidence today at the Disclosures Tribunal.
President Michael D Higgins has compared the plight of modern-day refugees with that of those who fled Ireland during the Great Famine.

WORLD

Harvey Weinstein Sexual Harassment Film producer Harvey Weinstein has been forced out of the company he founded after allegations of harassment against women. Richard Shotwell / PA Images Richard Shotwell / PA Images / PA Images

#HOLLYWOOD: Harvey Weinstein has been fired from his film studio The Weinstein Company following reports that he sexually harassed women over several decades.

#SMUGGLING: A 3.7 tonne haul of cocaine valued at €220 million was seized in the Atlantic Ocean.

#LAS VEGAS: Police officers who were the first to enter the hotel room of mass shooter Stephen Paddock have described how they believed he had set booby traps for them.

PARTING SHOT

#OnThisDay in 1834 the first railway in Ireland, which went from Dublin to Kingstown, opened. A train named Hibernia made the first journey. pic.twitter.com/OWRt1pOzKC
— Trinity College Dublin (@tcddublin) October 9, 2017

TrinityCollegeDublin / Twitter

The Dublin to Dun Laoghaire stretch of railway line is one which will be familiar to anyone who uses the Dart, it first opened 183 years ago today.

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