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# News Fix
Here’s What Happened Today: Wednesday
Everyone’s talking about Enda Kenny promising to act on Priory Hall and the death of Ariel Castro.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a roundup of today’s news.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
IRELAND
- Taoiseach Enda Kenny has promised action on Priory Hall.
- TDs and Senators have let rip at Bank of Ireland boss Richie Boucher.
- Ulster Bank has begun legal action against 4,000 homeowners in arrears.
- The deployment of Irish troops to Syria has been delayed.
- The family of Michael Dwyer has called for an investigation into his death.
- The number of people on the Live Register is down.
- One prisoner and two officers were hurt when a prison van overturned on a motorway.
- Ryanair has issued a profit warning.
- Questions are being asked about the Irish Times’ Holles Street abortion story.
- Lawyers for an Irish nanny accused of murder want the case to be dropped.
- David McCullagh is the new presenter of RTE’s Prime Time programme.
- Christmas jumpers are for sale already in Penneys…
INTERNATIONAL
(AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
#OHIO: Ohio kidnapper Ariel Castro was found dead in his prison cell.
#SYRIA: Barack Obama says he will not repeat the mistakes made in Iraq when it comes to Syria.
#GOLDEN DAWN: A judge has thrown out a pivotal anti-racism case brought by neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn in Greece.
INNOVATION
- Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy smartwatch which runs apps and makes calls. [BBC]
- An app store for Google Glass is coming next year [Mashable]
- Speaking of Google: today is the internet behemoth’s 15th birthday. Here’s some things you may not have known about it.[Guardian]
PARTING SHOT
Music blogger Nialler9 and photographer Mark Duggan have created this striking roundup of Electric Picnic using 60 or so animated gifs. We can’t stop looking at it. [Nialler9]
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