{"id":608729,"date":"2026-08-29T23:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608729\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T23:52:13","slug":"heres-what-happened-today-saturday-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/608729\/","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.\n<\/p>\n

IRELAND<\/p>\n

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\n Fans wearing plastic rain coats to protect themselves from the bad rainy weather at Electric Picnic on Friday evening. Rollingnews.ie<\/p>\n

Rollingnews.ie\n<\/p>\n

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INTERNATIONAL<\/p>\n

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\n In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out a fire in a warehouse following a Russian drone attack near Kyiv. Alamy<\/p>\n

Alamy\n<\/p>\n

#KYIV\u00a0At least 37 people have been killed<\/a> after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv, sparking a huge fire and explosions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

#CRUDE MOVES US President Donald Trump has reached a huge oil deal with Venezuela that gives the US majority control of 65 billion barrels<\/a> of petroleum reserves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

#FLOODS\u00a0The death\u00a0toll<\/a> from the devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet has reached 682 people, as rescuers battle to locate thousands of people still missing.<\/p>\n

#ICELAND Icelanders\u00a0have begun voting on whether the country should resume entry talks with the European Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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PARTING SHOT<\/p>\n

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\n Trimbos.nl<\/p>\n

Trimbos.nl\n<\/p>\n

Ecstasy pills shaped like the head of US President Donald Trump have been circulating in the Netherlands, with reports that they contain a large quantity of PMMA.<\/p>\n

This is a substance that closely resembles MDMA, the active ingredient in ecstasy, but the risks of overdose are much higher as its effects are delayed.<\/p>\n

A Dutch health institute has warned<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cDo not take this pill in any circumstances.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news. IRELAND Fans wearing plastic rain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13164,61,60,43,13165],"class_list":["post-608729","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\/608729","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=608729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}