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Here's what happened today: Thursday
Here’s your round-up of today’s news.
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Some 35 people, including five children, were deported from Ireland last night on a special chartered flight to Nigeria
- As a result, The Journal has found that staff and pupils of a school that was attended by two of the children who were deported have been left “devastated”
- The nursing homes regulator stopped new admissions to the Laois facility featured in an RTÉ Investigates programme, as the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) said it is “very concerned” over the “distressing” scenes seen in the investigation
- Lawyers for Sean McGovern, who is charged with murder and directing a criminal organisation, have raised a concern about the legality of his extradition to Ireland from the United Arab Emirates last week
- The High Court has ordered that three wind turbines in Co Wexford be totally shut down due to noise nuisance
- The HSE has decided to refer an unpublished report detailing concerns at Children’s Health Ireland to gardaí and the Irish Medical Council
- Spring 2025 was the warmest spring Ireland has ever experienced in the 126 years of weather records held by Met Éireann
- Gerry Adams has announced that he will donate the €100,000 in libel damages from the BBC to “good causes”, including “the children of Gaza”, Irish-based homeless support groups and Irish language organisations
INTERNATIONAL
#MUSK: Donald Trump and Elon Musk have exchanged accusations and insults today as they publicly fall out over Trump’s cornerstone spending plan
#HUNGARY: A Hungarian law that harshly restricts access to LGBTQ-related content is a violation of European Union law, according to the Advocate General of the EU’s Court of Justice
#TRAVEL BAN: Trump has signed a new US travel ban targeting 12 countries including Afghanistan, Iran and Yemen, reviving one of the most controversial measures from his first term
#ECB: The European Central Bank has cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 2%, and first-time buyers stand to gain from the decision
#WHITE HOUSE: Trump has told German Chancellor Fredrich Merz that D-Day, when allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944 during WWII and marked the beginning of the end of the Nazi regime, “was not a pleasant day” for Germany
PARTING SHOT
Ireland is the data centre capital of the world with 89 data centres storing your Instagram reels, TikTok dances and endless folders of photos that keep us connected in the digital world.
Data goliaths like this are at the centre of the rise in AI, with every ChatGPT prompt or AI-generated image requiring huge amounts of data to be processed.
But why should you care?
Because data centres have a major environmental cost too.
To provide a complete picture of this energy-sapping industry, The Journal Investigates mapped — for the first time — all operating and planned data centres in Ireland.
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