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Here’s What Happened Today: Friday
The Graham Dwyer trial, rent supplements and Daffodil Day… all in your evening new’s catchup.
Updated 10.59 pm
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Graham Dwyer has been found guilty of the murder of Elaine O’Hara.
- A man in his thirties has been stabbed at a retail park in south Dublin.
- Rent supplements are set to stay the same, the government has said.
- Today was Daffodil Day, with thousands of people around the country wearing the flowers in support of the Irish Cancer Society.
- The Grafton Barber has been hacked by people supporting the Islamic State group.
- 2FM presenter Louis McSharry has announced today that she is no longer suffering from cancer.
- Squatters in Grangegorman were given until 4 May to leave.
- An Irishman in Lutry, Switzerland has admitted to stabbing his wife up to 50 times after a dispute.
- There has been an explosion at a cafe in Cork, leaving a man and a woman in hospital.
INTERNATIONAL
#GERMANY: Locals in the German town where 16 schoolchildren killed in Tuesday’s Germanwing’s crash tragedy lived have been offered money for stories.
#FRANCE: Rescuers searching in the French Alps for survivors of Tuesday’s crash have only found remains.
#CANADA: Instagram has said it ‘accidentally’ removed a poet’s picture of her menstruating after she complained to the site that the photo was not against its policy.
INNOVATION
Ever frustrated at not being able to get the US Netflix over here in Ireland? Well all that could be about to change.
Facebook has managed to test large, solar-powered drones over the UK, Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed. [The Guardian]
PARTING SHOT
- One American state is set to bring back the firing squad… here’s why. [Vox]
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