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Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday
Here’s your round-up of what made the headlines today.
NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
Ireland
- Top civil servant, Martin Fraser, has said that neither he or Taoiseach Micheál Martin were closely involved in the botched appointment of Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan to a professorship in Trinity College.
- The Russian ambassador, Yuri Filatov, has denied lying to the Irish public over the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a combative interview on RTÉ’s Drivetime.
- The Supreme Court has given Patrick Quirke permission to appeal his conviction for the murder of Bobby “Mr Moonlight” Ryan.
- Payments to households who take in Ukrainian refugees could come into operation within the coming weeks, Minister Heather Humphreys has said this afternoon.
- The Prison Officers’ Association has launched a stinging attack against the Government for how prison officers were treated during the Covid-19 crisis.
- Taoiseach Micheál Martin has pledged that there will not be a ban on the use of turf “for the rest of the year” ahead of a Sinn Féin motion due tonight on the ongoing turf dispute.
- Proposals on State pension age will be brought to a Cabinet subcommittee “very soon”, the Social Protection Minister has said.
- A Van Gogh experience has been postponed amid significant confusion over two similar “immersive” events.
- Journalists Vincent Browne and Henry Kelly have been urged to help an inquest on a loyalist bomb attack in Belfast in the early 1970s.
- Dublin’s Capel Street is set to pedestrianised from next month following a vote by Dublin City councillors.
International
#RUSSIAN GAS Poland and Bulgaria will receive gas from other EU member states after Russia decided to cut off the flow of gas to the two European countries.
#NASA EXPEDITION SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for Nasa, which is the first crew that is comprised equally of men and women.
#ANGELA RAYNER The editor of the Mail on Sunday has refused to attend a meeting with House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle over a controversial report about deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner.
Parting Shot
In one of his first public appearances since being re-elected as French President, Emmanuel Macron appears to ‘dab’ in celebration while walking through a crowd of supporters.
Emmanuel Macron is seen “dabbing” during his first public appearance since being re-elected pic.twitter.com/9YN0s8CfrH
— The Sun (@TheSun) April 27, 2022
Macron, who won re-election with 58.5% of the vote, beat far-right challenger Marine LePen in Sunday’s run off election.
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