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Here's What Happened Today: Sunday

Minister Leo Varadkar, a crash in Westmeath, and JobBridge had everyone talking today.

Updated 23.30

NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round up of today’s news.

20150118_130226 John O'Neill and Peter Hogan play fast and loose with the rules of perspective on Tonlegee, Co Wicklow. Daragh Brophy / TheJournal.ie Daragh Brophy / TheJournal.ie / TheJournal.ie

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Ukraine Alexander, 35, looks through a broken window of his flat, hit by Ukrainian Army Artillery, in the Voroshilovsky area, center of Donetsk. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#BELGIUM: The mastermind of the jihadist cell raided earlier this week is ‘still at large’.

#CAMEROON: Boko Haram is believed to have kidnapped 60 people.

#FRANCE: The Kouachi brothers were given secret burials in unmarked graves.

#GOLAN HEIGHTS: Several Hezbollah fighters were killed by an Israeli airstrike. [The Jerusalem Post]

#PHILIPPINES: Six million people attended the Pope’s mass in Manila.

#UNITED STATES: Shots were fired near US Vice-President Joe Biden’s home. [CBS News]

INNOVATION

  • Facebook is revealing its artificial intelligence tools. [TNW]
  • A drone to kill other drones is being developed. [Geek]
  • Twitter has fewer users than you might think. [Business Insider]

PARTING SHOT

Here’s a moonwalking traffic policeman in India.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 9:17 AM

    Sure nobody is to be going outside so it’s fine.
    Stay in, watch some tv, read a book, stay warm.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 8:31 AM

    The English is ur opening paragraph is really poor.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 8:40 AM

    @Gina Carroll: People in glasshouses……

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    Jan 21st 2021, 8:48 AM

    @Gina Carroll: I can’t see anything wrong with the English in the opening paragraph.
    And by the way, you should really spell check your comments before you send them. Especially when criticising other people.
    You have a great day now.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 8:54 AM

    @Karl Lyons: In the heading there is no full stop after days.
    In the first paragraph the first 3 words are all capitalised.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 8:56 AM

    @Gina Carroll: It’s in English! Maybe you meant to say the grammar? Oh and it’s your not “UR” text talk makes me batty, the phones have predictive text, it couldn’t be simpler

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    Jan 21st 2021, 8:58 AM

    @Melina Roberts: people are so picky on here!

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    Jan 21st 2021, 8:58 AM

    @Melina Roberts: people are so picky on here!

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    Jan 21st 2021, 9:05 AM

    @Gina Carroll: I tink its all spelt just fine

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    Jan 21st 2021, 9:08 AM

    @Karl Lyons: I would have grave concerns over the use of the word “Especially” at the beginning of a sentence. It is certainly not acceptable in formal or academic writing. There should also be no space before a comma. The only ending punctuation mark that sometimes needs to be preceded by a space is a dash.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 9:15 AM

    @David Connell: A heading doesn’t need a full stop as it’s a heading.
    And the capitalisation at the start of a paragraph is to emphasise or signal the beginning of an article for the reader.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 9:21 AM

    @Gina Carroll: lol! The irony.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 9:45 AM

    @Kevin Arnold: You should look bit closer and you’ll see that there is no space before the comma. It just seems that way because of the letter y.
    Hands up to my grammatical error with the word especially.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 10:03 AM

    @David Connell: It’s a heading and fullstops don’t tend to be used in headings. The capitalization of the first 3 words tends to be a standard in many newspaper articles and book chapters if you ever pick them up.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 10:23 AM

    @Gina Carroll: ur englush noot grate eithur.

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    Jan 21st 2021, 4:28 PM

    @Melina Roberts: F All else to do !

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    Jan 21st 2021, 5:55 PM

    @Gina Carroll: I agwee

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    Jan 21st 2021, 10:23 AM

    Any chance the weathermen could give us some sun? What did we do to them?

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    Jan 21st 2021, 11:17 AM

    I saw a UFO for 10 seconds this morning somebody said it was the Sun

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    Jan 21st 2021, 2:53 PM

    Dublin got its fair share of rain this morning all the same.

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