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Here's What Happened Today: Friday

The UK elections, an abandoned newborn baby and a critical report on Portlaoise Hospital had everyone talking.

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

Trinity Access 21 Showcase-2 Students, teachers and education innovators gathered at the Foundry in Google to celebrate the first year of Trinity Access 21 Project. PAUL SHARP PAUL SHARP

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General Election 2015 declaration - May 7th Boris Johson, elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip reacts after the General Election count. Andrew Matthews / PA Andrew Matthews / PA / PA

#BRITAIN: There was good news for David Cameron when the results of the general election were announced.

#MIDDLESBOROUGH: A man who had his penis cut off in an assault last year was found dead.

#PAKISTAN: Ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines were killed in a helicopter crash.

#BALTIMORE: The US Justice Department will conduct an investigation into the police force.

#NORTH AFRICA: Police found an eight-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast hidden in a suitcase that was smuggled across the border.

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Amateur photographer Eva Donlon sent us this great photo from Tullamore, Co Offaly, of a rare upside-down rainbow. It is technically known as a circumzenithal arc or Bravais’ arc.

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