{"id":607958,"date":"2026-08-29T04:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607958\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T04:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T04:40:12","slug":"heres-what-happened-today-friday-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/607958\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s what happened today: Friday \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 Festival goers pictured at Electric Picnic today. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

IRELAND<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL<\/p>\n

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\n US President Donald Trump pictured signing an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’. Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n

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

#NEPAL:\u00a0The level of trauma cascading from the Nepal flash floods is \u201cenormous\u201d<\/a>, the Red Cross said, with early estimates suggesting 93,000 people may have been affected and that the death toll will continue to rise.<\/p>\n

#LAKE ONTARIO:\u00a0Canadian prime minister Mark Carney has said that his country \u201cknow that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario\u201d, after Donald Trump ordered it to be renamed \u201cLake America\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

#HEIST:\u00a0Two men bought tickets to enter Vienna\u2019s Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) before smashing a display case, grabbing a 200-carat platinum and diamond necklace<\/a> and walking away, police said today.<\/p>\n

#NORWAY:\u00a0Tributes have been paid to King Harald V of Norway<\/a>, who has died at the age of 89.<\/p>\n

PARTING SHOT<\/p>\n

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\n Festival-goers pictured at Electric Picnic. Valerie Flynn \/ The Journal<\/p>\n

Valerie Flynn \/ The Journal \/ The Journal\n<\/p>\n

Our own Valerie Flynn is in Stradbally for the weekend, where Electric Picnic has got off to a predictably soggy start<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A torrential downpour sent festival-goers scrambling for shelter this afternoon, with some even taking refuge in the portaloos, while the weather delayed the first acts on the main stage.<\/p>\n

But spirits remain high and, in typically Irish fashion, the sun even came out in time for Jade\u2019s set.<\/p>\n

One attendee said she\u2019s here to see singer songwriters Zara Larsson and Lewis Capaldi, whatever the weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care if it rains. I\u2019ll go home with pneumonia to get to the two of them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Read Valerie Flynn\u2019s full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news. Festival goers pictured at Electric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13164,61,60,43,13165],"class_list":["post-607958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-evening-fix","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-news-fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607958","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=607958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}