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Here's What Happened Today: Saturday
Humphreys’ campaign launch, row over the Mater Hospital, and the Liffey swim.
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- The Labour Party has launched a broadside against the Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill over her handling of an apparent row with the Mater Hospital board.
- Fine Gael’s presidential candidate Heather Humphreys has officially launched her campaign today at the Peace Campus in her native Co Monaghan.
- In Co Limerick, there were 18 international students sharing a rental house after being misled by the landlord, who left the students under the impression that the house would be shared between four to six people.
- A man in his 80s is in critical condition following an assault at St Michael’s Avenue in Tipperary town last night.
- Pope Leo XIV claimed he was attacked on the street by a passerby while on a visit to Ireland up to 20 years ago.
INTERNATIONAL
#GAZA: The Israeli military has claimed that more than 250,000 people have left Gaza city for other parts of the territory over the past few weeks, since it intensified its assault on Gaza’s largest urban centre.
#UKRAINE: US President Donald Trump has said the Russia-Ukraine war would end if all Nato countries stopped buying oil from Russia, and also placed tariffs on China of 50% to 100% for its purchases of Russian petroleum
#LONDON: Elon Musk called for a change of Government in the UK and railed against the “woke mind virus” as he spoke at Tommy Robinson’s rally in London, which attracted huge crowds.
#THE UNITED STATES: Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika has said her “cries” will “echo around the world like a battle cry” in a message directed at “the evildoers responsible” for the assassination of her husband.
PARTING SHOT
THE LIFFEY SWIM took place in Dublin today. Here’s a few of those that braved the September water.
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