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Budget Free Zone: The other news you may have missed yesterday
It wasn’t all about Budget 2015 yesterday, you know.
WITH 24-HOUR coverage of Budget 2015 taking over your screens yesterday, you may have missed out on developments in other news stories.
You know about Ireland not losing in Germany though, right?
Here’s what else happened on the 14 October.
IRELAND
- Remember that explosion on Long Lane in Dublin that went off early because the bomber forgot about the clocks going forward? Yeah, he was arrested yesterday - but released today.
- Dublin Zoo has paid €5,000 to charity to avoid a conviction over a tapir attack on a toddler and her mother.
- A man had his finger severed in a stabbing incident in Sligo town.
- U2 are buying another patch of Dublin. Oh, and Hozier received more international accolades. Just your average day on the Irish music scene.
- As our friendships grow, the government has RSVP’d to Britain’s invitation to Remembrance Sunday wreath-laying.
- The surgeon who was unable to scrub up or prescribe paracetamol was, unsurprisingly, convicted of poor professional performance.
- It also emerged that health workers here are not trained to identify sex trafficking victims.
- Mattie McGrath is unhappy with the Courts Service and gardaí over home repossession cases.
- You need to read the bizarre story about the Taoiseach, the TD, his girlfriend and the diamond ring.
- Gay teachers met with the President, a major step considering Section 37.
- Children from Northern Ireland who need heart surgery will be treated in Dublin because experts found no need to have two paediatric surgical centres.
- Hopefully, our children are getting healthier as youth obesity rates may start to fall soon.
- A taxi driver was held at knifepoint as his car was taken in Ballymun.
- We’ve been recycling more glass bottles. But does that mean we’re drinking more?
- A number of Irish items were found in a Scottish Viking dig.
- Sad news from Donegal, where a 19-year-old woman was killed in a car crash.
- And that wasn’t the only tragedy on our roads. Gardaí also want help investigating a serious hit and run in Dublin.
- Finally, the trailer for The Guarantee was released. Don’t watch it if you’re in a good mood. Or a bad one, actually.
INTERNATIONAL
- Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize.
- Tony Blair may have been the target of a man who is on trial in London for terrorism – the accused had the former PM’s address written on a scrap of paper in his car when he was stopped by police.
- Oscar Pistorius was back in court for his sentencing hearing and the court found out that Reeva Steenkamp’s family had rejected ‘blood money’ from the athlete.
- Protesters in Hong Kong haven’t given up, and were seen yesterday rebuilding bamboo blockades and involved in scuffles with police.
- Barack Obama outlined his concerns about what is happening in the Syrian town of Kobane which is under attack by Islamic State militants.
- A riot in a Brazil prison escalated and inmates turned captors, taking a number of guards hostage.
- Kim Jong-Un made an appearance in North Korea for the first time in almost six weeks.
- There won’t be an independence vote in Catalonia on 9 November – but there will be an unofficial poll.
EBOLA
- A UN employee died from the terrible disease in Germany. He picked up the virus in west Africa.
- Heathrow started screening for Ebola. Gatwick and the Eurostar are next.
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has given €20 million to the global fight against Ebola.
- Meanwhile, two US Ebola patients have said they are doing well as they recover from the horrendous illness.
- And the dog of the Texas nurse with Ebola has been spared.
- But there will always be somebody on the gain. Blue String Ventures is looking to sell ebola.com for €118,500.
TECH
- Taxi app Hailo didn’t break America. It’s OK, Hailo, neither did Oasis.
- Facebook and Apple have said they will pay for their female workers to freeze their eggs so they can continue with their careers – and bear children later.
- Snapchat hasn’t made any promises but says it will try and improve security after a third-party app leaked photos.
- They aren’t the only ones in trouble, Dropbox has also had to distance itself from claims that 7 million accounts were hacked.
- Speaking of security, a flaw in Microsoft Windows allowed hackers based in Russia to spy on NATO, European governments and a host of other organisations. Oops.
SPORT
- That John O’Shea moment happened.
- In the same group, Poland and Scotland drew 2-2.
- Northern Ireland beat Greece 2-0 in Athens.
- Another European qualifier between Serbia and Albania was abandoned because of crowd trouble. The brother of Albania’s Prime Minister was also arrested.
- Cristiano Ronaldo scored this goal to help Portugal beat Denmark.
- Luis Suarez said he wasn’t racist to Patrice Evra. He’s not letting this one go.
- The FA has scolded Rio Ferdinand for using the term ‘sket’ on Twitter. Definition here.
SPACE
This is what a lightning storm looks like from space.
https://vine.co/v/Oqh6KzOd7iV
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