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Here's What Happened Today: Friday
Enda talks Brexit on Sky, Cork N-bomb sentences and attack on French missionaries.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Enda Kenny has told Sky News that it would be ‘impossible’ for Brexit to happen within two years.
- Gardaí are investigating whether a man found dead in Buncrana may have fallen asleep in freezing conditions.
- The sister of a Cork teenager who died after taking N-Bomb has criticised the sentences handed down to his drug suppliers.
- Public pay chairman Kevin Duffy has retracted comments in which he likened garda strikes to “mutiny”.
- A new EU-wide survey has indicated 21% of Irish people believe having sex without consent is justified in certain situations.
- A law lecturer who took a ferry to Ireland after a child pornography conviction has lost a legal challenge.
- Alcohol campaigners have criticised €1 ‘Black Friday’ drink deals.
- Temperatures will drop to as low as low as minus six degrees overnight.
- Over €60,000 in cash and a luxury car was seized by gardaí targeting organised crime gangs.
WORLD
#TOP JOB: US investor Wilbur Ross, best known here for his €500 million involvement with Bank of Ireland, is expected to land a key role in Donald Trump’s new cabinet.
#ATTACK: French police have arrested a former soldier after the killing of a female worker at a retirement home for Christian missionaries.
#GRINDR KILLER: Stephen Port will spend the rest of his life in prison in the UK for the murder of four men.
INNOVATION
- Stripe, the online payments company founded by Limerick brothers Patrick and John Collison, is now estimated to be worth over $9 billion.
- It’s ‘Black Friday’, but what does that mean for online retailers?
PARTING SHOT
Living in London as an Irishman. Same language, but very very different.
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