Here's What Happened Today: Wednesday

Short prison stays by two TDs, the flooding and alcohol pricing had people talking today.

Updated at 11.30pm

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

IRELAND

9/12/2015. Flooding Athlone. A Red Cross team arri A Red Cross team arrives at the Park Estate, under threat from a flooding River Shannon in Athlone Town. Eamonn Farrell Eamonn Farrell

Bad weather and flooding caused more travel problems.
The army was deployed to four counties to assist flood defence efforts.
The government announced it will be setting a minimum price on alcohol of €1 a unit.
Mick Wallace was sent to jail (briefly).
As was Clare Daly.
It was confirmed TD John Perry‘s court action against FG will go ahead next week.
A new report said there were too many gardaí sitting behind desks.
A landmark shopping centre in Finglas sold for over €3 million.
Peter Mathews’ row with the Ceann Comhairle continued in the Dáil.
A Renua candidate on the tax defaulters list said he wanted to be accountable to others.

WORLD

Cynthia Payne funeral A floral tribute spelling the word 'SEX' is removed from the roof of the horse drawn hearse that carried brothel madam Cynthia Payne's coffin to her funeral in London. Hannah McKay Hannah McKay

#US POLITICS: Figures in US and international politics continued to react to Donald Trump‘s incendiary comments on Muslims. The Mayor of Philadelphia, for instance, called him an “asshole”.

#CALIFORNIA SHOOTING: The husband and wife who killed 14 people in an attack in San Bernardino last week were radicalised before they started dating online, FBI Director James Comey has said.

#ABOUT TIME: And the Time person of the year was announced…

INNOVATION

Online subscriptions to services like Netflix will be portable across the EU under proposals announced today [BBC]
And this made us laugh… Buzzfeed have put together a list of 26 Times Kim Kardashian Still Used a Blackberry in 2015. [Buzzfeed]

PARTING SHOT

Youtube’s review of the year is out… The video site has confirmed its top Irish clips of the year, and this cruel Ray D’Arcy prank makes the list.

The presenter, you may recall, pretended a Jack Nicholson impersonator was the man himself – and it didn’t go down well at all with the audience.

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