Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday

Everyone’s talking about 1916, Tidal and same-sex marriage claims.

Updated 11.44 pm

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

IRELAND

AnTaoiseachKrust6 Enda Kenny at Krust Bakery in Dublin today. Barry Cronin Barry Cronin

After An Taoiseach appeared to suggest it, the government i nsisted it would not be rewriting the 1916 proclamation.
The government will, however, be buying the historic Moore St site.
Irish Water says meters have already identified 30,000 suspected leaks.
A man has been arrested after a major fire in Newbridge destroyed a line of six houses.
A senator suggested money being spent on the same-sex marriage referendum would be better spent testing gay people for HIV.
A video posted on Facebook showed a teenage boy with Down Syndrome in Cork being forced to expose himself and eat twigs.
A leaflet sent to Maynooth University associated supporters of the same-sex marriage referendum to paedophilia and child sex abuse.
A cannonball from the Spanish Armada washed up on a beach in Co. Sligo.
Hundreds of jobs may be at risk at B&Q stores throughout the country.
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will reunite on stage in Ireland.

INTERNATIONAL

Romania US Nato NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe reviews troops in Bucharest. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#NO LUCK: President Goodluck Jonathan was beaten by a 72-year-old former military leader in Nigeria’s election.

#HOSTAGE: A Turkish prosecutor died after being from his injuries after being taken hostage by an armed group.

#GERMANWINGS: It emerged that a grandmother, mother and daughter all called ‘Emma’ were killed in last week’s Alps crash.

INNOVATION

Jay-Z was joined by a plethora of celebrities last night at the launch of his new streaming service Tidal. Here’s what it’s all about.
An Irish company is behind the ‘world’s largest, commercial wave fa rm.’

PARTING SHOT

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