Here's What Happened Today: Friday

Teachers’ salaries, travel disruption and an attack on a police officer in New York had everyone talking.

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

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Commuters faced further disruption in today’s bus strike.
Newly qualified teachers will now starton €31,800 a year
A motorcyclist in Wexford was killed in a collision with two cars
Three Dublin men were charged with membership of the IRA
Police in Tyrone are searching farmland near the area a missing girl was last seen in 1994
A European study found Ireland is the most welcoming country for Syrian refugees
Designer puppies were rescued from a horsebox and van at Dublin Port.

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#NEW YORK: A police officer from Dublin was attacked with a meat cleaver, suffering a serious facial injury.

#BIRTHER MOVEMENT: Donald Trump finally admitted Barack Obama was born in the US.

#OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM: The UK apologised for the drowning of an Iraqi boy who was forced into a canal by British soldiers.

#BEN NEEDHAM: The missing toddler’s mother has been told her son may have been killed in a Greek digger accident.

#ITALY: A woman died by suicide after a video of her having sex went viral.

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