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Here's What Happened Today: Thursday

The last of Tonight with Vincent Browne, water returns to Louth and Meath, and a bizarre statement from Bray Wanderers.

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

IRELAND

VINCENT BROWNE Sunday Tribune and Magill magazine editor Vincent Browne with Fianna Fail TD Bertie Ahern during their election manifesto launch in November 1992. Eamonn Farrell via RollingNews.ie Eamonn Farrell via RollingNews.ie

WORLD

Reuters 20170712 Madonna sits with her children Stella, David and Mercy at the opening of a children's surgical unit at a hospital in Blantyre, Malawi. Siphiwe Sibeko via PA Images Siphiwe Sibeko via PA Images

#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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