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Here's What Happened Today: Saturday
Irish jihadist dead in suicide bombing, Fat Freddie charged and Beyonce for Clinton – it’s the Evening Fix.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- An Irishman, named online as Terence Kelly, has reportedly blown himself up in an Islamic State suicide attack in Iraq.
- Freddie Thompson, often known as “Fat Freddie”, has been charged over the murder of a father of one.
- Junior doctors are the latest public sector pay workers to threaten industrial action in a dispute over a ‘living out allowance’.
- Gardaí have also been reacting to the increased pay offer that saw them call off a planned strike.
- An Aer Lingus flight had to be diverted from Kerry Airport after a smaller plane went off the runway.
- The bodies of Tom and Kitty Fitzgerald, found dead at their Mayo home, have been released to family members.
- A senior Kinahan gang member has given information to gardaí about the murder of Gary Hutch.
- Contract cleaners are to get pay increases and will no longer be charged on a rolling basis for their uniforms.
- A postponed review of the OCI ticketing scandal will reportedly cost more than €750,000.
WORLD
#CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS: Beyoncé and Jay Z came out to campaign for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland last night.
#CASE CLOSED: A woman who had alleged Donald Trump raped her when she was 13 years old has dropped a lawsuit against him.
#ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE: The UK’s Justice Minister has come out in a rather reluctant defence of the High Court judges who were criticised after this week’s Brexit ruling.
ANTI GAY LAWS: Uganda has denied it discriminates based on sexual orientation and claims that laws which criminalise homosexual sex are a legacy of British colonialism.
INNOVATION
- When arch tech rivals face off - How LinkedIn Drove a Wedge Between Microsoft and Salesforce. (New York Times)
PARTING SHOT
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Britain’s Prince Charles dancing with a ceremonial sword as he begins a Middle Eastern tour in Oman.
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