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Here's What Happened Today: Friday
Here’s what had people talking today.
NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Donald Tusk told the UK that the EU backs Ireland
- Keith Harrison said he would continue his case against the State
- GSOC said it would not continue its fixed penalty cancellation investigation – because it isn’t worth the outlay
- Lawyers said a retired surgeon convicted of sexual abuse would die in prison
- A man was sent forward for trial accused of harassing RTE’s Sharon Ní Bheoláin
- A man was killed in a crash in Kilkenny
- A homeless man was sentenced for robbing an elderly couple
- A High Court injunction was granted to stop the Sunday Business Post from publishing details about the commission investigating IBRC
INTERNATIONAL
#FLYNN: Donald Trump’s former national security advisor Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian diplomat.
#PAKISTAN: Nine people were killed and dozens injured today when burqa-clad Taliban militants stormed a training institute in the northwestern city of Peshawar as Pakistan marked the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed.
PARTING SHOT
“Her face and vagina are competing for my attention, so I glance down at the billiard rack of my penis and testicles.”
That is just one line of the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award 2017.
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