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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday
Here’s your roundup of what made the headlines today.
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a roundup of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Christy Dignam, the lead singer of Aslan, has died aged 63.
- People reacted angrily online and a number of politicians have come out against the installation of a bike rack outside the popular LGBTQ bar Street 66 in Dublin.
- Gardaí are investigating after a man was hospitalised following the discharge of a firearm in north county Dublin.
- Retained firefighters took part in industrial action in a dispute over staff recruitment and retention.
- In its first meeting, the Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying grappled with whether people should be able to access any service on the grounds of disability alone.
- A group of internees known as the Hooded Men have received an apology from the PSNI over their treatment at the hands of police.
- Adult ADHD awareness is on the rise, but the State support services are not there to back it, according to Chief Executive of ADHD Ireland, Ken Kilbride.
- The public has been reminded to refrain from approaching or handling fawns during fawning season.
INTERNATIONAL
#NOTTINGHAM Police are keeping an open mind over the motive for a knife and van attack in Nottingham, England, which killed three people, including two students.
#TRUMP Donald Tump has pleaded not guilty to dozens of felony charges of mishandling US government documents at a court in Florida.
#UKRAINE Russian missile strikes on the hometown of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have killed 11 people, as Moscow said it had captured Western armoured vehicles from Kyiv’s forces.
#FOX NEWS The US cable news network warned Tucker Carlson, who was ousted in April from a primetime hosting slot on the right-wing station, that his new show on Twitter violates the terms of his contract.
#TORI BOWIE Olympic medalist and former 100m world champion Tori Bowie died due to complications from childbirth, an autopsy report has found.
PARTING SHOT
“There are few, if any, who better encapsulate Ireland of the last 60 years than Christy Dignam.
“A survivor of sexual abuse as a child and as a teenager, a recovering addict, who spent six months in homelessness as an adult, who wrote some of the best-known and best-loved Irish songs of the past 30 years.”He was a man whose story encompassed length and breadth of the beauty and horror that has shaped modern Ireland.”
You can read more of Carl Kinsella’s look at Christy’s life and career here.
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