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# News Fix
Here's What Happened Today: Monday
Everybody’s talking about the Greyhound strike agreement, Joan Burton’s car being blocked, and Kurds fleeing from Islamic State.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Plans to close courthouses in parts of Dublin were shelved.
- Greyhound workers have voted to end a 14-week lockout.
- A taxi driver said he was lucky he wasn’t killed in an attack.
- There was a possible sighting of missing Tom Kennedy hailing a taxi on the night he went missing.
- Charles Haughey’s family are “deeply disappointed” over claims he was beaten with an iron bar.
- Almost 3,000 children are waiting a year for speech and language therapy.
- Murders, thefts and drug offences are up, new figures show.
- A young man was killed in a motorbike crash in Carlow.
- Farmers brought a Grim Reaper to an Aldi store over vegetable prices.
- The inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan, who died after giving birth at Sligo Hospital, has begun in Sligo. [RTE.ie]
- The family of killed Michael Dwyer said they were “followed and intimidated” while in Bolivia.
- The Government says it’s not protecting the wrong 1916 house on Moore Street.
- Protesters blocked Joan Burton’s car from leaving an event at a Dublin school.
- The €87m EuroMillions ticket was sold in Dublin.
- Dublin City Council voted to cut the Local Property Tax by 15%.
INTERNATIONAL
#UN Actress Emma Watson gave a powerful speech about feminism at the UN.
#LONDON Police have begun searching a canal as they try to locate a missing teenager.
#NORWAY Desmond Tutu has called on Norwegians to forgive mass murderer Andres Breivik.
#UKRAINE Rebels say they’re read to carry out their side of a peace deal… but ‘with great difficulty’
#UK Retail giant Tesco admitted to making a €300 million “overstatement” in its finances.
#SYRIA More than 130,000 Syrian Kurds have now crossed into Turkey to flee Islamic State.
INNOVATION
- The Oculus Rift is one step closer to its official release – here’s its new prototype headset. [TheJournal.ie]
PARTING SHOT
Student Emma Sulkowicz says she was sexually assaulted on campus, and was shocked to see the alleged culprit being found not responsible. So she has begun a unique project, called Carry That Weight, to bring her message to college authorities. [New York Times]
