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Here's What Happened Today: Friday

Ireland taking in more refugees, a murder investigation in Tallaght and chaos in Hungary.

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

4/9/2015. Karl Holmes Crime Scenes Garda forensic teams at the scene in Avonbeg Gardens in Tllaght in County Dublin, where 44 year old Karl Holmes lost his life Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

IRELAND

WORLD

Hungary Migrants Hundreds of migrants cross the river Danube in Budapest, after they decided to walk toward Austria. Bela Szandelszky / AP/PA Bela Szandelszky / AP/PA / AP/PA

#CRISIS: Hungarian football fans attacked refugees at Budapest train station.

#THE DONALD: Trump has vowed not to run as an independent in the Presidential election.

#SO HIGH: Spanish police are getting stoned from having too much weed in their stations.

#THE CHURCH: The Vatican has said transsexual people are not able to become godparents.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

We don’t THINK there are any spoilers in this but uber-careful Game of Thrones fans might not want to watch it just in case. A reader sent us this footage they took of the show’s filming in Ballintoy this week.

Eye In The Sky / YouTube

(Video: Eye in the Sky/YouTube)

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