Here's What Happened Today: Thursday

Trevor Deely dig suspended, bomb scare in RTÉ and Catalan crisis deepens.

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Bare Island Cork sell Euromillions €500,000 ticket bere island lotto seller034 Mary Murphy (centre) with her family after selling a €500,000 Euromillions ticket on Bere Island, Cork. DonMacMonagle / MacInnes Photography DonMacMonagle / MacInnes Photography / MacInnes Photography

WORLD

Jurassic Kingdom a Spinosaurus model at the Jurassic Kingdom in Newcastle. Owen Humphreys / PA Images Owen Humphreys / PA Images / PA Images

#CATALAN CRISIS: Plans in Catalonia to hold an outlawed independence referendum have been hit after Spanish police seized 10 million ballot papers, sparking more protests.

#FREEZE OUT: US President Donald Trump paved the way for sanctions against foreign companies doing business with North Korea, a dramatic ratcheting up of pressure on the regime.

#EXTREMISM: A man who shared an audio recording of a hate preacher’s speech justifying the 2015 terror attacks in Paris has been jailed for four and a half years in the UK.

PARTING SHOT

Fairly or unfairly, Marilyn Manson is one of music’s most infamous performers, but Guardian journalist Alexis Petridis still didn’t expect the US singer to flick him in his testicles when they sat down for an interview.

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