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evening fix

Here's What Happened Today: Friday

Here’s what made the headlines today.

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

IRELAND

Funeral of Greenvale Hotel tragedy victim Lauren Bullock Mourners carry the coffin of Conor Currie into in Saint Malachy’s Church, Edendork. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

WORLD

Belgium EU Brexit European Council President Donald Tusk, left, speaks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Francisco Seco Francisco Seco

#BREXIT: DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds criticised the British government, calling the delay to Brexit “a humiliation”, and putting Theresa May’s deal in doubt once again.

#CHRISTCHURCH: New Zealanders held a two-minute silence today, reflecting on the moment one week ago when 50 worshippers at two mosques were killed.

#CANADA: A priest was stabbed during a live-streamed morning mass at Saint Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, the largest church in Canada.

PARTING SHOT 

It’s been a long week of Brexit madness. Our heads are filled to the brim with Brexit analogies (see this hilarious video here), and we’re exhausted from reading the latest complex supposed solution – backstop, customs deal, flextension, etc – to this tangled bureaucratic mess.

So here’s a couple of humorous visuals instead