Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

Election blame games, Phil Hogan out to bat on Brexit and a Tenerife nightclub collapse.

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

IRELAND

Paul Kerrigan shakes hands with Micheal Martin TD after the game Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Nemo Rangers' Paul Kerrigan. Martin's son, also Micheál Martin, was playing in goal for the Cork club, Oisin Keniry / INPHO Oisin Keniry / INPHO / INPHO

Contact between Noirín O’Sullivan and the Department of Justice was among the revelations in a trawl of department documents provided to Fianna Fáil.
As the talk of an election intensifies, politicians hit the airwaves to blame each other.
If there is to be an election, it seems that Frances Fitzgerald will run.
Ireland’s EU Commissioner Phil Hogan spoke to a UK newspaper to urge the British government to keep Northern Ireland inside the customs union.
A man died following a single vehicle collision in Cornamona, Co Galway.
Tourists are slowly being diverted away from some of Ireland’s most iconic monuments to protect them.
Scientists at NUI Galway have made a breakthrough in regenerative medicine approaches to Parkinson’s disease.
A union representing GPs has said that the number of violent incidents against its members is increasing.

WORLD

Japan Daily Life A participant wearing outfits of traditional Japanese samurai eats a rice ball in Tokyo. Shizuo KambayPA Images Shizuo KambayPA Images

#TENERIFE: Forty people were injured after a section of floor at a packed nightclub on Spain’s holiday island of Tenerife collapsed, sending people tumbling into the basement.

#LONDON: Two men suspected of a fight that sparked a terror scare in London’s Oxford Street shopping district have been released without charges by police.

#CONSENT: A 31-year-old French teacher will go on trial tomorrow for sex with an underage pupil after being dragged to a police station by the girl’s furious stepfather.

PARTING SHOT

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Thousands of people turned out at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross today to support its 25th annual Light Up A Life campaign.

The record crowd was in part due to the attendance of Daniel O’Donnell, who spoke to RTÉ News about his and his wife Magella’s connection to the hospice.

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