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Here's What Happened Today: Friday

The Dáil left waiting, recruitment for Irish prisons and police officers killed in the US…

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

IRISH

08/07/2016. Street Performance World Championships The Street Performance World Championships were taking place in Dublin's Merrion Square today Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

  • Catherine Murphy has made more claims in the Dáil about billionaire Denis O’Brien’s finances. 
  • The Dáil was left waiting for 39 minutes earlier today after too few TDs turned up. 
  • The Department of Foreign Affairs has sent auditors to investigate the UK branch of Console. 
  • A woman has been given a two-year suspended sentence for robbing and attacking another woman on the Luas. 
  • A senior company executive shoved a cyclist to the ground and started beating and strangling him for cycling on a footpath, a Dublin court has heard. 
  • Several hundred lines of enquiry have been opened into a shooting in Lusk earlier this week.
  • A recruitment drive has started for new officers to work for “tolerance and humanity” in Irish prisons. 
  • Are you an eFlow customer? A dispute means that your tag won’t work at three toll booths.  

WORLD

Spain Running of the Bulls A bullfighter covering his face with his hat as he prays before a bullfight in Pamplona, Spain Daniel Ochoa de Olza / PA Wire Daniel Ochoa de Olza / PA Wire / PA Wire

#LONDON: A British court has awarded a £62 million divorce settlement to a former model whose ex-husband divorced her under Islamic law without her knowledge. 

#UNITED STATES: Five police officers have been shot dead in the United States by a sniper who said he wanted to “kill white people”. 

INNOVATION

  • iOS 10, which Apple has said will be one of its biggest ever updates, now has a beta version available that can be tested by the public. 
  • Facebook Messenger is taking its cue from other messaging apps and is testing encryption – however it may have overlooked something. 

PARTING SHOT

The Euros will be remembered for many things – but probably mostly for the sheer majesty that is the ‘Will Grigg’s on Fire’ chant. While reappropriations of the chant by other football teams has been welcomed, it should never, ever, ever be used by tennis enthusiasts, as pointed out by our friends over at the Daily Edge. [Daily Edge]

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