{"id":650880,"date":"2026-10-10T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/650880\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T20:34:12","slug":"heres-what-happened-today-saturday-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/650880\/","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.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

IRELAND<\/p>\n

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\n The public-service pay dispute continues, with INMO members engaged in a work-to-rule Rolling News<\/p>\n

Rolling News\n<\/p>\n

Public service union F\u00f3rsa has announced that strikes may continue into winter amid the ongoing pay dispute<\/a>.
\n\u00a0A legal challenge to a decision by secretary of State Chris Bryant to halt an Orange Order parade in Co Armagh has been adjourned to Monday<\/a><\/p>\n

Dance star Michael Flatley has described \u201cnever feeling pain like it\u201d as he bid farewell to his wife. Mourners from across the world turned out to attend her funeral in Mount Merrion.<\/a><\/p>\n

There will be no D\u00e1il sitting on Wednesday as more than 100,000 public sector workers prepare to take part in a nationwide strike over pay<\/a>.
\nIreland has proposed \u20ac141 billion in cuts to the EU\u2019s next long-term budget, falling short of demands from member states.<\/a><\/p>\n

A young man has died, and another young man has been hospitalised following what garda\u00ed described as a \u201cmedical emergency\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in Co Sligo.\u00a0
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Dermot Kennedy has announced the postponement of the rest of his US tour to avoid suffering \u201clong-lasting damage\u201d to his vocal cords<\/a>.<\/p>\n

INTERNATIONAL\u00a0<\/p>\n

#ICC:The winner of this year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize, Navi Pillay, has called sanctions announced by the US on the International Criminal Court (ICC) \u201cunheard of, unacceptable\u201d.<\/a><\/p>\n

#BOTCHED EXECUTION :\u00a0Christa Pike has been discharged from hospital and returned to prison, her lawyers have said.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

#DIESEL DEAL: US President Donald Trump\u00a0has urged Ukraine to replace Volodymyr Zelensky with a new leader, lashing out at him for strikes on Russian oil refineries that have contributed to pre-election high diesel prices.<\/p>\n

PARTING SHOT<\/p>\n

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\n RTE<\/p>\n

RTE\n<\/p>\n

Good news! The Zoo returns to RT\u00c9 next week\u00a0giving viewers a glimpse of what it is like inside one of Ireland\u2019s most popular attractions.<\/p>\n

The first episode of the season roars onto screens with the world\u2019s first cataract surgery ever performed on a hippopotamus.<\/p>\n

18-year-old hippo Imani undergoes the historic procedure under the care of a specialised team in Dublin\u00a0Zoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today\u2019s news.\u00a0 IRELAND The public-service pay dispute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23734,969,74259,13164,1555,61,60,43,13165,275732,182066,13166],"class_list":["post-650880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-dermot-kennedy","tag-donald-trump","tag-dublin-zoo","tag-evening-fix","tag-forsa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-news-fix","tag-public-sector-strike","tag-the-evening-fix","tag-the-fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650880","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=650880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}