NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
- Water services returned to Louth and Meath after a “complex” pipe repair
- The last episode of Tonight With Vincent Browne will air this evening – you can follow our liveblog here
- A person has been struck by a Luas tram in Dublin city centre
- Radio listenership figures were announced today – and showed audience numbers for RTÉ Radio One dwindle while 2FM surged in popularity
- A man in his 80s was hospitalised after being hit by a bus in Dun Laoghaire
- The Jason Corbett trial heard that he had only a low-level of a sleeping pill present in his bloodstream at the time of his death
- Brian Cowen said he “deeply regrets” the number of jobs lost during the recession
- Singer Sinead O’Connor is being sued by her former manager Fachtna O’Ceallaigh and his company for alleged breach of contract and defamation
- The chairman of Bray Wanderers FC released a statement calling Wicklow the “North Korea of Ireland” in a bizarre statement on the club’s future.
WORLD
#USA: Hundreds have marched in New York over US President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops in the military.
#RICH LIST: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has become the world’s richest person, overtaking Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates.
#CHARLIE GARD: A UK High Court has ordered that Charlie Gard should be moved from a hospital to a hospice, despite his parents’ request for him to be brought home.
#COURTS: Madonna and her daughters Stella and Estere have accepted damages from the publisher of the Mail Online website over an article that was a “serious invasion of privacy”.
PARTING SHOT
As journalist and presenter Vincent Browne ends his late-night skewering of political heavyweights and social commentators, here’s a look back at a few of his best moments.
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