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Here's What Happened Today: Saturday

Trump’s travel ban lifted, drugs seizure in Dublin and the Citizen’s Assembly reconvened – It’s the Fix

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

IRISH 

funeral 6490_90501816 Mourners at the funeral of Pat O Malley this morning. Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie Sam Boal / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

  • The sixth case of bird flu was found in a whooper swan in Tipperary.
  • A man was arrested after gardaí seized cocaine and cannabis worth an estimated €80,000 from a house in Tallaght.
  • A man died after his car collided with a bin lorry and then crashed into a wall in Offaly.
  • The Citizens’ Assembly reconvened today to hear arguments around the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution.

WORLD

France Trump Protest A demonstrator takes part in a protest against US President Donald Trump's recent travel ban to the US in Paris. AP Photo / Kamil Zihnioglu AP Photo / Kamil Zihnioglu / Kamil Zihnioglu

#UNITED STATES: The US State Department has cancelled a ban on travel visas from seven predominantly Muslim countries after a federal judge ruled it unconstitutional.

#UKRAINE: 35 people have died in the last week in renewed fighting with pro-Russian separatists.

#FRANCE: The Louvre in Paris reopened this morning 24 hours after a soldier patrolling the museum shot a machete-wielding attacker.

PARTING SHOT

How far can you throw an American football in a space station? 564,664 yards, it turns out.

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