{"id":628020,"date":"2026-09-18T00:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628020\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T00:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T00:38:11","slug":"heres-what-happened-today-thursday-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628020\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s What Happened Today: Thursday \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 Caitriona Balfe and Daisy Edgar- Jones pictured at Irish premiere of Sense & Sensibility at The Stella Cinema. Sense & Sensibility is in cinemas from 25 September. Andres Poveda<\/p>\n

Andres Poveda<\/p>\n

IRELAND<\/p>\n

A man in\u00a0his 50s has been arrested in connection with the alleged assault on TD<\/a> Michael Healy-Rae.
\nGarda whistleblowers who\u00a0attempted to raise serious concerns about wrongdoing in the force claim they were \u201cobstructed and sidelined\u201d<\/a>, a Sinn F\u00e9in TD has said.
\nIreland will not participate<\/a> in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest in Bulgaria, with RT\u00c9 confirming that it will also refuse to broadcast the competition.
\nThe son of\u00a0Gerry \u2018The Monk\u2019 Hutch must reveal his \u201cincome, outgoings and any savings or assets\u201d<\/a> after saying he wanted free legal aid for his trial on a charge of facilitating organised crime.
\nEleanor Donaldson has\u00a0applied to appeal the verdict<\/a> from her trial of the facts that she aided and abetted her husband Jeffrey Donaldson\u2019s abuse of two children.\u00a0
\nA group representing\u00a0military officers has said that leaders of the operation to protect the EU Presidency are not being paid adequately<\/a> for working 24-hour duties.\u00a0
\nThe government has been accused of \u201craking in\u201d additional VAT receipts<\/a> while motorists are being hit with sky-high petrol and diesel prices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL<\/p>\n

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\n Displaced Palestinians shelter inside a building heavily damaged in Gaza City Alamy<\/p>\n

Alamy\n<\/p>\n

#ROYAL FAMILY: Buckingham Palace has\u00a0denied that King Charles said his former wife Princess Diana would be forgotten \u201csoon enough\u201d<\/a> in the days after her death.<\/p>\n

#SWEDISH ELECTIONS: The leader of\u00a0Sweden\u2019s left-wing bloc that won a slim majority<\/a> in the country\u2019s election, Magdalena Andersson, has vowed to lead the country in a \u201cnew direction\u201d after four years of right-wing rule backed.<\/p>\n

#HOSTILE ACT?: Canadian Prime Minister\u00a0Mark Carney has said a closer alliance between Canada and the European Union should not become another global power rival<\/a> \u201conly with better manners\u201d, after US President Donald Trump suggested that allowing Canada to become an associate EU member could be a \u201chostile act\u201d.<\/p>\n

PARTING SHOT<\/p>\n

The Queen of Chat Show TV Oprah Winfrey came to Dublin this week for an in-conversation event at the 3 Arena.<\/a><\/p>\n

But one young Irish podcaster saw this as an opportunity to live out his dream and interview Oprah.<\/p>\n

Glen Anderson hosts the \u201cBack Of The Class\u201d podcast with Ben Hanlon, and Anderson was able to track down Oprah to her hotel in Dublin.<\/p>\n

He bumped into CBS Mornings host Gayle King, who he mistook for one of Oprah\u2019s crew members.<\/p>\n

Anderson made his case to King and she made his dream come through and set up the interview with Oprah.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news. Caitriona Balfe and Daisy Edgar-…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13164,61,60,43,13165],"class_list":["post-628020","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\/628020","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=628020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}