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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Drugs like ecstasy legalised through legal loophole, text messages read at the Graham Dwyer trial, Olympians killed in helicopter tragedy, and the BBC suspends Clarkson…

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

IRELAND

File Photo Govt introduces emergency legislation following Court of Appeal judgment which will effect head shops reopening. Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

Drugs like ecstasy are currently legal to consume, due to a legal loophole

That’s right, you heard us. Why? Here’s an ‘explainer’

More than one thousand text messages were read in court, at the Graham Dwyer trial

Mick Wallace and Clare Daly were in court again, over Shannon

A tax consultant made a €4 million settlement with Revenue

The O’Donnell children said they understood people’s lack of sympathy for them

It emerged Dublin City Council paid out €8.32 million last year in staff and public injury claims

Micheál Martin said he knows Gerry Adams was a chief of staff of the IRA

And it turns out Irish women aren’t as sexually satisfied as men think

WORLD

Clarkson suspended PA Wire / Press Association Images PA Wire / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#TRAGEDY: Ten people, including two Olympians, were killed in a helicopter crash

#ISLAMIC STATE: A new ISIS video purportedly shows a child executing an Arab Israeli who, the group claims, infiltrated it to spy for the Jewish state.

#OUT? Jeremy Clarkson (above) has been suspended by the BBC following an incident with a producer.

#ST PUTZ: And New York Mayor Bill de Blasio wound up the Irish community so much he made the front page of the NY Post. 

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

What if Michael Bolton (the pop singer) had actually been in the well-loved cult film ‘Office Space’… Wonder no more, and check out this clip from Funny or Die. 
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6bff9b5b67/office-space-w-michael-bolton

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