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# News Fix
Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday
Everyone’s been talking about the driver who smashed into Trinity’s front gate, Angela Kerins quitting, and the disturbing package sent to Alan Shatter’s home.
Updated at 11.44pm
Student Enterprise Awards National Final: Ballinteer Community School students Paul Tyrrell (14) and Jacob Edwards (14)
IRELAND
- A man smashed his car into the front gate of Trinity
- Anti-Semitic material was sent to Alan Shatter‘s home
- The ‘no confidence‘ motion on the Justice Minister was defeated
- There was a shooting in Ballyfermot
- The new Garda Commissioner spoke to her troops
- Angela Kerins quit as Rehab CEO
- There was another arrest over the Jean McConville case
- The names of 22 children who died at the Bethany Home were released
- James Reilly published his universal health insurance plans
- There was another drop in the Live Register
- An investigation was ordered into the taping of prisoner phonecalls
- And Patrick Kavanagh had his shoes restored…
WORLD
China’s Ambassador to Malaysia Huang Huikang speaks during a special briefing for Flight MH370 relatives
#PLANE: A British nuclear sub joined the search for Flight MH370
#BLAST: A bomb from WWII exploded in Thailand
#AWKWARD: French President Francois Hollande added his ex-partner to his new cabinet
INNOVATION
- Amazon announced Fire TV, its set-top streaming box and gaming device
- Spotify also rolled out a redesign
PARTING SHOT
When they’re young, identical twins are normally indistinguishable. That often changes later in life, however.
Beijing photographer Gao Rongguo’s portraits of identical twins over the age of fifty are quite moving…. [Huffington Post Arts]
