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Here’s What Happened Today: Saturday

Everyone’s been talking about the tragedy in Glasgow, the Labour conference, and the country’s first woman bishop…

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

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Eamon Gilmore is shown a baton used in 1913 at a memorabilia display [Photocall Ireland]

IRELAND

  • The Labour party has been holding its annual conference in Kerry
  • A man was pronounced dead after his body was found in a car in a canal
  • Deputy State Pathologist Dr Khalid Jaber resigned from his job
  • A police officer was knocked unconscious after a flag protest in Belfast
  • Aid agencies appealed to donors to give cash to the Philippines, not clothes
  • Pat Storey was ordained as the first female Church of Ireland bishop
  • ESB unions sent a letter to management regarding IBEC’s strike warning
  • Figures showed a third of all drownings in the last 25 years were suicides
  • Plans for a trip to Japan by the Taoiseach were confirmed
  • SUSI confirmed decisions have been made on all completed grant applications

WORLD

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[Andrew Milligan/PA Wire/Press Association Images]

#SCOTLAND: Police confirmed that eight people had died, and fourteen others were in a serious condition in hospital following last night’s helicopter crash

#NAMIBIA: The burned wreckage of a Mozambican Airlines plane has been found in Namibia. All 33 people on board died

#AUSTRALIA: A teenager died after being attacked by a shark in New South Wales

#USA: The world’s longest commercial flight route, between the US and Singapore, has been cancelled after a nine year run

INNOVATION

  • Did you know Steve Jobs was initially against the idea of making Apple’s products white? [Business Insider]
  • And — interested in a way of streaming all your music and videos to your smart devices? Check out our ‘apps of the week’

PARTING SHOT

There reviews for last night’s Late Late Toy Show were generally pretty glowing. This is one of the moments that’s been going viral. Have you seen it yet?

(Youtube: RTÉ) Has anyone ever been quite so happy to see Robbie Keane? More here.