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Here’s What Happened Today: Friday

Everyone’s talking about the escalating situation in Gaza, a one-day train strike, a manhole explosion in Dublin… and the hottest day this year.

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

IRELAND

Source: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Swimmers enjoy the hottest day of the year so far in Seapoint, Co Dublin. 

WORLD

AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

Reptile Manager Paula Swanson applies a mud and clay mixture to "Mary", a Galapagos tortoise at the Phoenix Zoo. The mixture cools and protects the tortoise's skin from the sun. 

#GAZA Israel rejected a ceasefire proposal put forward by the US

#OUTBREAK Nigeria's government confirmed a case of Ebola

#PLANE CRASH France's President confirmed there had been no survivors of the Air Algerie plane crash in Mali

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

How much would Mary Poppins have been paid?... About $7.25 an hour if she was working in the US today --- perhaps a little unfair considering all those magical powers.

Kristin Bell, of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Veronica Mars fame, portrays the famous nanny in this new video for Funny or Die, aimed at highlighting the plight of underpaid workers in the States...
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c2deb9a5e8/mary-poppins-quits-with-kristen-bell

(Don't know where they found they found those two kids --- dead ringers for the originals. CGI?)

First posted at 9pm

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