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Here's What Happened Today: Friday
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- The Regency Hotel murder trial has been viewing CCTV evidence from moments after Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne was shot dead, including footage of what the prosecution say is a dissident republican gunman escaping from the scene.
- Equality Minister Roderic O’Gorman said he cannot rule out that refugees arriving in Ireland seeking accommodation may have to sleep on the streets.
- A man who sent sexually explicit videos to a Fine Gael TD during the 2020 general election campaign was handed a suspended sentence and ordered to stay away from Leinster House.
- A Green Party senator settled a High Court action against him over an incident in which a car he was driving went through a red light and hit a pram being pushed by a mother-of-two.
- Less than half of adults in Northern Ireland are aware that abortion is lawful despite it being decriminalised there three years ago, according to a new poll.
- Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said it is in Ireland’s interest that the UK economy is stable.
- It’s a wet weekend ahead with some possible spot flooding, Met Éireann warned.
- Gardaí arrested two people and seized over €1 million worth of heroin and cocaine in Dublin.
THE WORLD
#UK Penny Mordaunt became the first Tory MP to announce that she will run to be the UK’s next prime minister.
#UKRAINE Ukraine forces are continuing to put pressure on Russian forces in occupied Kherson.
#US Former Trump aide Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in prison for refusing to testify in the congressional probe of the 6 January attack on Capitol Hill.
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