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Taylor Swift Fans Avery (10) and Hayden McFeely (8) from America getting ready for the concert tonight. RollingNews.ie
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Here's What Happened Today: Saturday
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Hundreds of Aer Lingus pilots marched around Dublin Airport earlier as part of an eight-hour strike over pay.
- Galway has knocked Dublin out at the All-Ireland football quarter-final stage in Croke Park.
- Despite the rain, thousands gathered in Dublin’s city centre for today’s Pride celebrations.
- Fianna Fáil has been criticised after one of its former TDs – who has been distanced from the party after he “didn’t do enough” about a disclosure that his cousin had sexually abused children – appeared at an event to celebrate one of the party’s councillors being elected as mayor.
- The funeral of legendary GAA broadcaster Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh took place this morning in Dingle, Co Kerry.
- Mourners gathered in Sligo this afternoon for the funeral mass of former RTÉ journalist Tommie Gorman who was remembered as a “unique force for unity” and his years reporting on Northern Irish politics.
- A man aged in his 40s has been charged in connection with the suspected fatal assault on Paudie O’Connor, in Castleisland, Co Kerry.
INTERNATIONAL
#UNITED NATIONS Humanitarian workers have started moving tonnes of aid that had been piled up at a US-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses. Work had up until now been suspended due to security concerns.
#RUST US ACTOR ALEC Baldwin is facing an involuntary manslaughter trial in early July after a judge denied a request to dismiss the case.
#ENGLAND A woman has been arrested after a video was shared on social media allegedly showing a prison officer having sex with an inmate in a jail cell.
#SEARCH AND RESCUE A huge renewed search for missing British teenager Jay Slater is underway in Tenerife today as the operation enters its 13th day.
PARTING SHOT
Fans have braved the rain for Taylor Swift’s second night of her blockbuster Eras Tour at the Aviva stadium in Dublin.
Yesterday and today, Dublin has been gripped by Swiftmania and throngs of people have set up camp outside the stadium to listen to the star perform.
The show celebrates Swift’s entire musical career, with songs from all her studio albums representing her different ‘eras’ as she rose through the ranks of the musical industry after moving to Nashville when she was 14.
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