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News Fix
Here's What Happened Today: Friday
Man shot dead at boxing weigh-in in Dublin, and crane collapses in New York – it’s the Evening Fix.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- One man has been killed and two others injured when gunmen dress as gardaí fired their weapons at a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel in north Dublin.
- Fact Check: Were 135,000 new jobs really gained under Fine Gael?
- A group of youths cut down Labour, Fianna Fáil and Green candidate posters in Dun Laoghaire last night.
- A trainee Montessori teacher who sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl will be sentenced next month.
- Joan Burton has warned voters to ‘beware of Sinn Féin creeping in the night’.
- It seems that Sinn Féin alone got its numbers right when it came to the so-called ‘fiscal space’.
- A man who left a Garda in a wheelchair after crushing him with a stolen car has been jailed for seven years.
- Independent Kerry TD Tom Fleming has dropped out of the election race.
- The body of missing Dublin woman Christina Lavin has been found.
- A ‘black Irishman’ has won a court case against Bus Éireann after a racist assault by a bus driver.
- The M1 was blocked earlier after a crash between two heavy-goods lorries.
- An investigation is under way over allegations of incidences of revenge porn in UCD.
- A wheelchair-user has been awarded €132,000 after a court found that gardaí had falsely imprisoned her.
- Enda Kenny has finally ruled out going into government with Michael Lowry or any other independents.
- A man has died after a boat he was in capsized on the River Shannon.
- A woman has been awarded €16,000 in damages after another driver ‘tipped’ her car while parking.
WORLD
#CRANE COLLAPSE: A crane collapsed onto Broadway in Manhattan, New York killing at least one person.
#DEMOCRATS: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have locked horns with Clinton accusing Sanders of an “artful smear”.
#WIKILEAKS: Julian Assange should be compensated by Britain and Sweden according to the UN.
#CHICAGO: Six people have been found dead with ‘signs of trauma’ at a family home in the US city.
INNOVATION
- European police and soldiers will be trained by a €2 million game made at Trinity College.
- Disney has filed a patent for drone-based flying movie screens. The future of advertising? [Geek]
PARTING SHOT
This is why you should never fall asleep on your first day in a new job… [i100]
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