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Here's What Happened Today: Saturday

Violent protests in the US, searches resume for Trevor Deely and a man killed in a road crash – It’s the Fix.

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

IRELAND

Comic Con in Dublin Shona Maher as Wonder Woman and Aaron Lockhart as Batman, at the annual Comic Con at the Dublin Convention Centre. Niall Carson / PA Wire Niall Carson / PA Wire / PA Wire

  • Gardaí acting on new information began a search in a woodland area in Dublin for missing person Trevor Deely.
  • A man was killed after being involved in a single vehicle crash on the Naas Road.
  • It emerged that a senior member of the Kinahan crime cartel arrested in his Spanish hotel bed earlier this week evaded capture at an airport last year.
  • New analysis from Ibec has shown the Irish counties that will suffer the most from Brexit.
  • People have called for a “better legacy” for a listed building in Dublin that went up in flames early this week.
  • Transport Tourism and Sport Minister Shane Ross has spoken about his time in office and his battle to increase penalties for drink driving offences.
  • A Dublin inner city primary school and local residents failed in their plan to prevent a recovery centre for homeless addicts being opened in their area.
  • There was widespread anger as the family of convicted murderers Molly Martens Corbett and Tom Martens started a fundraising drive to pay for their appeals against their murder convictions.

WORLD

Confederate Monuments Protest A white nationalist demonstrator with a helmet and shield walks into Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va. Steve Helber / AP/Press Association Images Steve Helber / AP/Press Association Images / AP/Press Association Images

#UNITED STATES: There were a number of violent outbreaks – including a car crashing into a group of counter-demonstrators – during a white supremacist rally today in the small city of Charlottesburg in Virginia.

#INDIA: At least 60 children have died over six days at a government hospital in northern India that suffered oxygen shortages, officials said today.

#VENEZUELA: US president Donald Trump’s statement about sending in the military to Venezuela has been labelled as “craziness” and “supreme extremism” by the country’s defence minister.

#KENYA: Two people were shot dead in Kenya in angry opposition protests which flared up again after the hotly disputed election victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta.

PARTING SHOT

We all love Cillian Murphy, right? Well this clip of him talking passionately about music when he was just 19 has the internet talking (via DailyEdge.ie)

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