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Here's What Happened Today: Friday
Prince Charles and Gerry Adams, Blair’s warnings on the North, and cyber attacks striking the NHS.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Tony Blair said that the language of the Good Friday Agreement will have to be amended due to Brexit.
- The court in the Eric Locke murder trial heard how he said he “just wanted to frighten” Sonia Blount with cable ties and a pellet gun.
- Prince Charles paid a visit to Glasnevin Cemetery for a special ceremony this morning.
- He later enjoyed a joke and a handshake with Gerry Adams.
- Gardaí have begun an investigation into claims money was wrongly taken from accounts at Fermoy Credit Union.
- Family and friends gathered to remember activist Dara Quigley at a vigil in Dublin.
- The HSE said increased uptake of vaccines was partly due to “individual incentives”.
- Some Donnybrook locals are looking to block a Denis O’Brien-backed apartment block.
- A van driver in Meath was forced down a laneway where he was attacked and robbed.
- Richie Sadlier said that he contemplated suicide after injuries forced him to retire from football at 24.
INTERNATIONAL
#HACKED OFF: The NHS suffered from a large-scale cyber attack with hackers demanding ransom money.
#PATRIOT GAMES: Donald Trump issued a veiled threat to James Comey about so-called “tapes” of their conversations.
#ROME: Emergency services in the Italian capital responded to an explosion outside a post office.
PARTING SHOT
There was good news for the Irish student who lost his laptop containing all his notes for his PhD thesis following a night out.
After his Facebook pleas to get it back was shared by author JK Rowling, the taxi driver who had driven him home got in contact with the Sean Moncrieff show on Newstalk.
Jamal Sul was reunited with his bag containing the laptop today.
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