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News Fix

Here’s What Happened Today: Sunday

Investigations continued into two Dublin murders, Crimea voted… and the triumphant BOD & co. returned home.

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Michael Flatley with a young fan at the start of the Mayor of London’s St Patrick’s Day parade in central London [Laura Lean/PA Wire]

IRELAND

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[Vadim Ghirda/AP/Press Association Images]

WORLD

#CRIMEA The people of the Crimea region voted on whether to leave Ukraine and join Russia [above]. Unsurprisingly, exit polls show they’re pretty pro-Moscow.

#NIGERIA Over 100 people were killed in three villages in Nigeria. Some victims were hacked to death with machetes, officials said.

#PLANE The homes of both pilots have been searched and the captain’s home flight simulator examined in the Flight MH370 investigation.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT

It happened pretty early, so you may not be aware — the country’s most famous beard since the heyday of Noel Purcell is no more…

image[Cian Healy via Twitter]



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