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Here’s What Happened Today: Sunday

Everyone’s talking about a problem in the SME sector, the debris found from Malaysia Airlines flight and the Great White shark on the way to Ireland.

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Economist Morgan Kelly giving his lecture in UCD this week. (YouTube/UCD – University College Dublin)

IRELAND

WORLD

imageHugh Dunleavy, commercial director of Malaysia Airlines, speaks to the journalists at a hotel where relatives or friends of passengers aboard the missing airplane stay, in Beijing, China today. (Press Association Images)

#MALAYSIA AIRLINES: Possible debris from vanished Malaysia Airlines flight has been found in the sea off Vietnam.

#UKRAINE: Russian President Vladimir Putin said he wants to find a “diplomatic solution” to the crisis in Ukraine in a telephone call with British Prime Minister David Cameron.

#NORTH KOREA: It was election day in North Korea today, but voters were simply required to mark “Yes” next to the name on the ballot sheet.

INNOVATION

  • What do men and women want in a new phone? The same thing it seems. [Mashable]
  • Wearable tech is something Google is preparing to launch a software development kit on later this month. [The Guardian]

PARTING SHOT

Evelyn Cusack had good news today as it looks like there will be dry and settled weather for the coming weeks, according to Met Éireann.

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