{"id":579692,"date":"2026-08-02T02:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579692\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T02:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T02:44:16","slug":"heres-what-happened-today-saturday-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/579692\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What Happened Today: Saturday \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news.<\/p>\n

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\n Aircraft enthusiasts watch as a flight of Air Corps planes accompany an Aer Lingus airliner. Rollingnews.ie<\/p>\n

Rollingnews.ie<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL<\/p>\n

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\n Part of the palm forest in the Preveli region has been destroyed by the recent fire that broke out south of Rethymno on Crete. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n

#WORLD FOOTBALL\u00a0FIFA President Gianni Infantino has scrapped a plan to allow private investment in the World Cup following fierce backlash from football officials worldwide<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

#UKRAINE\u00a0At least nine people were killed and 22 civilians injured in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv after Russia launched an intense barrage of ballistic missiles and drones, authorities said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#GREECE\u00a0Hundreds of firefighters in Greece are battling to save a popular coastal resort northwest of Athens as violent winds continued to lash the country, hampering operations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#USA\u00a0The alleged kidnapper of a US television star\u2019s mother apologised as he told her family six days after her disappearance that she had died, according to a note released by police<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PARTING SHOT<\/p>\n

You might not have heard it yet, but there\u2019s a country single that\u2019s currently dominating the charts in the US.<\/p>\n

Choosin\u2019 Texas by Ella Langley has spent a record 15 weeks on top <\/a>of Billboard\u2019s Top 100 singles charts in the US.<\/p>\n

The 15-week milestone is a significant one for the 27-year-old singer because it means she\u2019s surpassed records set by Whitney Houston\u2019s I Will Always Love You and Mariah Carey\u2019s We Belong Together.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s poll, we want to know, have you listened to Choosin\u2019 Texas<\/a>?<\/p>\n

And the results are in:<\/p>\n

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The Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news. Aircraft enthusiasts watch as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13164,61,60,13165,112,182066],"class_list":["post-579692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-evening-fix","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news-fix","tag-sports","tag-the-evening-fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}