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Here's What Happened Today: Friday

Irish rents have soared to a new record, 188 people arrested over water charge protests since last year and English nurse who contracted Ebola in isolation unit after late complications.

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

IRELAND

90396301 This year the DSPCA are celebrating 175 years in existence and as Ireland's oldest and largest animal charity and marked the occasion with a visit by the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins. Mark Stedman Mark Stedman

INTERNATIONAL 

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#THIRD INTIFADA: Israeli gunfire killed six Palestinians and wounded dozens during clashes near Gaza’s border today.

#GREECE: A one-year-old boy has died after a boat carrying migrants began sinking during the night.

#FLORIDA: The families of three high school students who died after being hypnotised by a former principal will receive $200,000 each in compensation.

#BRITAIN: A nurse who contracted the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone has been transferred to an isolation unit in London after an “unusual late complication” with her illness.

INNOVATION

PARTING SHOT 

You may not have known this, but one of our finest exports, Michael Fassbender, got his start in acting like any other Irish kid: as an altar server.

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