Here's What Happened Today: Thursday

‘Mastermind’ behind Paris attacks dead, and tributes paid to man who died in Cork explosion – it’s the evening fix.

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

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Tributes are being paid to Donal Scanlon (21), the young Waterford man killed in a welding explosion yesterday in Co Cork
A terrifying video shows a Cityjet flight abandoning its landing at Cork airport at the last moment
An interim report released this evening shows that the IBRC / Siteserv inquiry is in all kinds of trouble
Peter Robinson is to step down as Northern Irish First Minister and leader of the DUP before the next election
Petia Fleming, a woman who has been missing with her eight-year-old daughter since yesterday, may be in Dublin
A man was attacked with a glass bottle at the Jervis Shopping Centre on Dublin’s north side
A woman was airlifted to hospital after a car accident in Co Mayo
Micheál Martin told the nation about his past life as an amateur boxer
Gardaí have appealed for help in tracing missing 46-year-old Kilkenny man Valerijs Zimecs who has been missing for more than two weeks
UK security experts have said that the best policy if caught up in a gun attack is to run and hide, not play dead
It’s going to snow in some parts of Ireland this weekend
A new report has found that people of African descent have to deal with regular racist abuse in Ireland
Complaints have been upheld against Dunnes Stores and SuperValu over their special offers

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#PARIS: Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind behind last Friday’s terror attacks in the French capital, was killed in a police raid yesterday according to prosecutors

#UK: Police believe that a body found in a field is that of missing 15-year-old Kayleigh Haywood

#US: American politicians have just voted to make it next to impossible for refugees fleeing Isis to enter America

#TINDER: The CEO of the dating app Sean Rad claims that a supermodel has been ‘begging’ him for sex

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