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Piper Decque aged 6 from Dublin at the beginning of the Dominick Street ‘Your Back Garden’ Programme. Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

Here's What Happened Today: Saturday

Here’s what made the headlines today.

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

IRELAND

691Dominick Street Art Jam_90710464 Piper Decque aged 6 from Dublin at the beginning of the Dominick Street ‘Your Back Garden’ Programme. Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Leah Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

INTERNATIONAL

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#PALESTINE: An Israeli strike on a school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza killed at least 30 people and wounded another 100, in an assault Taoiseach Simon Harris called “despicable”. 

#USA: Donald Trump told Christian supporters they “won’t have to vote again” if he is elected as US president in November.

#FRANCE: Railways delays cause further disruption at the Paris Olympic Games for the second day in a row as authorities continued to search for saboteurs. 

#ISRAEL: Palestinian children described abuse, sexual assault, disease and starvation in Israeli prisons, in a report published this week by Save the Children.

PARTING SHOT

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SOMETIMES WEIRD THINGS happen during the week and they just can’t wait for a Saturday morning column.

That was the case on Thursday when I became one of the few dozen people who will ever see the instantly infamous waxwork model of Sinéad O’Connor in the flesh, before it was almost as instantly scrapped. 

Read the rest of Carl Kinsella’s comun here.

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