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Here’s What Happened Today: Tuesday
David Drumm out on bail, rapist re-sentenced and the Cheltenham Festival.
Updated 11.00 pm
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Ex-Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm was bailed pending his fraud trial.
- Magnus Meyer Hustveit was re-sentenced to 15 months in prison for raping his girlfriend as she slept.
- A prison officer who was seriously injured in a car bomb blast in Belfast has died.
- RTÉ revealed the salaries of some of their top TV and radio stars.
- Residents set to lose their homes in Tyrrelstown have been advised not to leave the houses until they can find other accommodation.
- Ireland footballer Jeff Hendrick appeared in court charged with violent disorder.
- Enda Kenny was in Washington and got love bombed by US vice president Joe Biden.
- Gardaí arrested two men in connection with the murder of Vincent Ryan.
- Two former Anglo officials have had their convictions quashed.
- Dublin City Council have have put the brakes on plans for a Wetherspoons ‘super pub’ on Camden Street.
- Schoolchildren around the country celebrated Proclamation Day.
- Actor Robert Carrickford, best known for playing Stephen Brennan in Glenroe, died at the age of 88.
- Irish trainer and jockey Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh won the big race on the first day of the Cheltenham Festival.
INTERNATIONAL
#NORWAY: Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik made a Nazi salute as he arrived in court for his lawsuit against the Norwegian state.
#BRUSSELS: One suspect has been killed and four Belgian police officers were injured during a hunt for the Paris attackers.
#GERMANY: Police in Berlin say they suspect a bomb caused an explosion that killed a man who was driving through the German capital today.
#US: A customer carrying a concealed-weapon shot a criminal wielding a hatchet dead in a store in Washington State.
INNOVATION
- The Wild Atlantic Way is now available in virtual reality.
- ‘Typosquatting’ is the new way cybercriminals are trying to trick users. Essentially, they’re lying in wait for you to type in the wrong website.
PARTING SHOT
An Indian photographer decided to give his 96-year-old grandfather some slick looking new clothes so he take a few photos of him. The result is now going massively viral.
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