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Here's What Happened Today: Tuesday

Here’s your round-up of today’s news.

NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

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  • Ten prisoners have been taken to hospital in a serious condition after they apparently overdosed on an opioid in Portlaoise prison, The Journal has learned.
  • Almost 1.5 million people tuned into watch Kellie Harrington’s lightweight boxing final at the Olympic Games in Paris on RTÉ 2 television last week, according to new figures released by the broadcaster.
  • More than €10 million worth of cocaine has been seized at Dublin Port.
  • A woman has been killed in a three-vehicle collision in Co Wexford.
  • Former Irish President Mary McAleese has said that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland do not want to be associated with “the misery of racism” following demonstrations in Belfast last week.
  • A man charged over a knife attack in Dublin, which resulted in another man being hospitalised, has been granted bail with “strict” conditions.
  • People should be able to get prescriptions for eight common conditions at pharmacies, a report has recommended.
  • Record low unemployment in Northern Ireland is a positive step – but the region still has a high proportion of adults who are “economically inactive”, an economist has said.

INTERNATIONAL

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#MURDER INVESTIGATION A woman who was allegedly murdered by her Irish ex-partner, who was himself shot dead by police in Malta yesterday, had recently filed harassment reports with authorities.

#WILDFIRES The EU’s civil protection unit is set to join firefighters in Greece who are battling devastating wildfires just north of Athens for a third straight day.

#RUSSIAN WAR Ukraine is now in control of 74 settlements in Russia’s Kursk border region, the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

PARTING SHOT

Rose of Tralee launch 006 Domnick Walsh Domnick Walsh

RTÉ presenters Dáithí Ó Sé and Kathryn Thomas were pictured at the official launch of the Rose of Tralee International Festival 2024 in Airfield Estate.

The festival, which first ran in 1958, will return to the kingdom where women from all counties – as well as some far-flung places – will battle it out to be crowned the next Rose.

It runs from Friday 16 August to Tuesday, 20 August, and will air every evening on RTÉ.

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:18 PM

    What happened today: The Journal shut down commenting on the story about USA giving $20 billion in death funding to Isreal after nine comments (most likely soon to be deleted), because it might upset some people to hear how most of Ireland and the free worlds opinion on the matter.

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:24 PM

    @Meh Meh: standard operating practice…. There’s to be NO negativity about the democrats……… 2 Simple rules on here….:

    1. Democrats = sent from heaven, brilliant, fantastic, can do no wrong

    2. Republicans= evil peace lovers, orange man bad

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:37 PM

    @Meh Meh:
    The money would have been better sent to Ukraine ,a country that was actually invaded rather than the country that invaded another.

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:40 PM

    @Buster Lawless:
    You are right.The orange man is bad,and nothing in the eorld will change that.

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:47 PM

    @Mary.E.: Your right the orange man is bad. But so are Biden and Harris. How any Irish person could actually be cheerleading any of the 3 of them is beyond me. They all belong in a prison cell

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    Aug 13th 2024, 9:17 PM

    Slava Ukraini.

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    Aug 14th 2024, 3:55 AM

    @honey badger: The war in Ukraine will eventually end at the negotiation table, not with a military victory by Ukraine. There’s absolutely no way they can win a war against Russia. Can you imagine if someone pushed Mexico into a war with the US?
    Zelensky and Nato have completely destroyed Ukraine, and in the near future, the people will be cursing them for using them as cannon fodder.

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    Aug 14th 2024, 11:26 AM

    @John Smith: “Zelensky and Nato have completely destroyed Ukraine”…… But nothing to do with putin, no?

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    Aug 14th 2024, 5:21 AM

    It’s off topic but you know my sentiments I’m disgusted and very disappointed at the journals direction in this regard so sad for journalism and the voice of the majority and the world’s concerns.

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:15 PM

    Ol’ joey getting another 20billion of guns, death & destruction off to Israel before he goes out the door……. Disgusting

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:28 PM

    @Buster Lawless: if we were all like you, the western world, as we know it, would not exist. Take your pick from the other places you’d like to see dominate the world. Clown

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    Aug 14th 2024, 3:22 AM

    @offside again: You’re OK with bombing brown people as long as the US and their allies rule the world?

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    Aug 14th 2024, 3:31 AM

    @Buster Lawless: Biden hasn’t a clue what’s going on. It’s Blinken that’s running the show. It’s just like Weekend at bernies, but nobody is laughing.

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    Aug 13th 2024, 11:42 PM

    Joe and Harris giving Israel another 20 billion to continue its genocide the Palestinian people. The US is a pathetic excuse for a country

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    Aug 14th 2024, 12:30 AM

    @Ger Whelan: USA is a continent, made up from several federal states. It’s not a ‘country’ as such ..
    Europe is trying to be the same without having the same language and (sort of) the same culture everywhere.
    So it’s obviously going to be successful.
    So long as we’re not fighting each other, that’s already a good thing. You never know, we might unite genuinely ; and scare all of our enemies away.

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    Aug 14th 2024, 5:39 PM

    @offside again: sovereignty is waycist.

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    Aug 13th 2024, 9:08 PM

    Coalescing with a work shy province? Not sure about that.

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