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# News Fix
Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday
Everyone’s talking about junior doctors going on strike, AIB saying some customers just don’t want to pay their mortgages, and John Waters (briefly) going to jail.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of today’s news.
(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)
IRELAND
- Junior doctors are to go on strike on 25 September.
- AIB says some mortgage holders are choosing not to keep up payments.
- A garda has appeared in court over possession of images of child sexual abuse. [RTE]
- Priory Hall may have to be demolished and rebuilt.
- Electric Ireland is raising residential gas prices next month.
- Ireland has taken in 50 refugees from Syria.
- Dubliners are worried as Real IRA prepares to mark Alan Ryan’s death.
- VAT receipts were almost €250 million behind target.
- Hundreds have signed a book of condolences for Seamus Heaney in Dublin.
- Columnist John Waters was briefly imprisoned over a parking fine.
INTERNATIONAL
#SYRIA: Barack Obama has received cross-party support from US politicians for a strike against Syria. [New York Times]
#KILLING: One of the killers of Jamie Bulger has been released from prison for a second time.
#NUCLEAR: Japan is to spend €359 million building an ice wall around Fukushima.
INNOVATION
- Google’s next version of its mobile operating system will be called… Android KitKat. [TechCrunch]
- Apple has sent out invitations to its next iPhone launch event on 10 September. [Mashable]
- Microsoft spent €5.4 billion buying Nokia’s phone business.
PARTING SHOT
This interactive map compares New York City in 1836 to today – and it’s brilliant. Let’s have one for Irish cities, please. [Smithsonian]
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