Here's What Happened Today: Friday

Hospital staff suspended, Garda appeal, and snow in Australia – it’s the Evening Fix.

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

Eithne The LE Eithne returns in triumph to Cork today from its mission in the Mediterranean Port of Cork Port of Cork

The websites of three Dublin gyms were targeted by an Islamist hacking group
A Polish woman has been awarded €55,000 in compensation by the Equality Tribunal after being discriminated against by her employer on grounds of her race and family situation while heavily pregnant
Staff at a Dublin hospital have been suspended for accepting expensive holidays
People in Tralee, Co Kerry, are worried about plans for a public call to prayer at a mosque in the town
An Irish woman has died after being knocked down while working as a charity worker in Africa
2,500 foreign nationals were officially made Irish citizens today
A Dublin man was jailed for sending threatening text messages to his ex-girlfriend
Gardaí are appealing for information regarding the sudden death of 17-year-old Tory Johnston in Donegal
It’s going to be exceptionally wet in the west of the country this weekend
The man arrested over yesterday’s Longford helicopter crash has been released
A man who posed as a reporter has walked free from court with a suspended sentence after threatening to put an elderly sex offender’s picture “beside Larry Murphy” in a newspaper

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#GREECE PM Alexis Tsipras has purged his cabinet of ministerial rebels as the EU paved the way for talks on a short-term, €7 billion loan to the embattled nation

#UK A 34-year-old man has been arrested after a motorist was stabbed to death following a car crash

#AUSTRALIA Parts of the country have been covered in snowfall in what is described as the coldest July weather in decades

#USA A man who shot and killed four marines has been described as a ‘friendly, funny, kind’ person

#UKRAINE Eyewitnesses to the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 have recalled what they saw one year ago today

The SIM card as you know it could soon be a thing of the past [TheJournal.ie]
Could next season’s Game of Thrones start with a Jon Snow flashback? WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD [Geek.com]

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