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Here's What Happened Today: Saturday

A prisoner stabbed to death in Cork, the Dublin Monaghan Bombings and a former President sentenced to death had people talking.

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

wakeboarding 991 David O Caoimh wake boarding in Dublin's dockland's earlier today /Photocall Ireland /Photocall Ireland

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WORLD

Luxembourg Premier Marriage Xavier Bettel and his new husband Associated Press Associated Press

#GREECE: A number of people have come forward in the case of missing person Ben Needham after his relatives appeared on a TV appeal in Greece. 

#UNITED STATES: A woman who fled to avoid the circumcision of her son has been arrested for contempt of court. 

#LUXEMBOURG: The country’s PM Xavier Bettel has married his boyfriend in a private ceremony.

#EGYPT: Former President Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to death along with more than 100 others. 

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