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Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

Everyone’s talking about the loss of Lou Reed, stormy weather and the continuing travails of James Reilly.

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

imageTheJournal.ie reader Paul Corcoran took this photograph today of surfer Ronan O’Flynn taking advantage of the waves being whipped up near Aughris Head in Sligo.

IRISH

WORLD

#IRAQ: A bloody day in which a dozen car bombs killed 55 people. [Reuters]

#GERMANY/USA: US intelligence agencies have been spying on Angela Merkel’s phone since 2002. [Der Spiegel]

#USA: The influential rocker and songwriter Lou Reed died at the age of 71, just months after a liver transplant. Here’s an essential playlist. [Rolling Stone]

#BULGARIA: The biological mother of the girl ‘Maria’, found in a Roma camp in Greece, has given her first interview since the DNA test result – she denies “selling” her daughter when she was a baby.

INNOVATION

  • Preserve us from the “billion-dollar babies” – the pet projects of tech’s richest folks. [CNet]
  • Uh-oh. The gym that knows how hard you’re working… or not. [TechCrunch]

PARTING SHOT

One for the road, Lou:

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