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Here's What Happened Today: Monday

Here’s your roundup of what made the headlines today.
9.31pm, 9 Oct 2023
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NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

Palestinian Protesters7851 People gathered in solidarity with Palestine and its citizens outside the Israeli Embassy in Dublin. Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

  • Budget 2024 is being announced tomorrow and some details have been revealed today. 
  • Minister Eamon Ryan and two MEPs have said they do not agree with the projection of the Israeli flag on the European Commission building in Brussels over the weekend. 
  • A solidarity rally for Palestinians was held outside Dáil Éireann this evening.
  • There has been a breakthrough in talks between senior management in An Garda Síochána and representative bodies over the roster dispute.
  • The Luas green and red lines have resumed again this evening following a security alert which stopped all services in the city earlier. 
  • PSNI officers and gardaí have made a renewed appeal for witnesses to an attempted murder that happened in the border town of Crossmaglen last month. 
  • Radiographers working in University Hospital Galway and Merlin Park University Hospital have today voted overwhelmingly for industrial action.
  • Witnesses have described the moment boxing coach Pete Taylor was shot after he “made a charge” at a gunman who had opened fire on a gym session at Bray Boxing Club.
  • A Dublin-based Garda has pleaded not guilty to breaking into a colleague’s locker to steal a €70 cannabis exhibit and possessing it for sale or supply.

INTERNATIONAL

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#DEATH TOLL: Over 1,400 have already been killed in violence in Israel and Gaza in the worst violence seen in the region since 2014.

#PALESTINE: The European Commission has reversed its decision to suspend development aid payments to Palestinians, contradicting its commissioner for Neighbourhood and Engagement Oliver Varhelyi.

#ELECTIONS: Conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he is quitting the race for the Democratic US presidential nomination and would pursue his run as an independent.

#AFGHANISTAN: A senior Taliban delegation visited western Afghanistan’s Herat province today in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people

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