Here's What Happened Today: Friday

Turning down €13 billion, Electric Picnic begins, and a million tourists – it’s the Evening Fix.

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

IRELAND

11 NO FEE Brown Thomas ISPCC Amanda Byram launches the new Brown Thomas collection at the annual ISPCC luncheon today. Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

The Government is to appeal the Apple tax ruling announced by the European Commission.
The Independent Alliance said they would back the appeal to keep the coalition Government in office.
Electric Picnic music festival based in Stradbally begins today, featuring 50,000 people and rain.
Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for help tracing the whereabouts of a 14-year-old girl who went missing four days ago.
Ireland welcomed a million tourists here in July – the highest figure on record.
Gardaí are investigating after shots were fired at a house in Dublin.
Five Pomeranian puppies were rescued at Dublin Port, while the van containing them was seized for having no insurance.
A person has died after a car crashed into a wall and burst into flames in Waterford.

WORLD

2016 School Games - Day Two - Loughborough University English judokas compete at the 2016 School Games at Loughborough University, in Britain. Rui Vieira / PA Rui Vieira / PA / PA

#SCOTLAND: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said today that Brexit had changed the conditions that existed when Scotland voted against independence in 2014.

#MELANIA TRUMP: Donald Trump’s wife is to sue two media outlets for claiming she worked as an escort in the 1990s.

#US: A teenager with autism has been spared jail after making hoax bomb calls.

#CLINTON: A Romanian hacker who exposed Hillary Clinton’s email server has been jailed for four years.

INNOVATION

Controversial driving app Uber has won the right to take Transport for London to court, over rules that would require its drivers to pass English tests. [BBC]
Samsung has suspended sales of Galaxy Note 7, after reports of exploding batteries.

PARTING SHOT

Greystones is getting an immense tree carved “in honour of Apple’s €13 billion“.

Apple carving Special Branch Carvings Special Branch Carvings

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