Here's What Happened Today: Friday

NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

• Public sector unions said they will be “left with no alternative” but to escalate strike action if crunch talks do not reach an agreement.
• Three men who formed part of a terrorist group that plotted to attack a Galway mosque using pipe bombs have brought “shame and embarrassment on all of us,” a judge said.
• A man accused of raping a female colleague was ordered to have no contact with her outside work and as little as possible during office hours.
• Road tolls across the country will increase from 1 January, including an extra €1 at peak times at the Dublin Port Tunnel.
• Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a report of an assault on a member of the clergy following a confrontation between Enoch Burke and Church of Ireland Archbishop John McDowell in Armagh.

INTERNATIONAL

#CHRISTA PIKE: Convicted murderer Christa Pike said she is in constant pain since surviving a botched execution attempt in the US state of Tennessee.

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#ENGLAND: Russell Brand carried out rapes and sexual assaults while treating women as a “disposable commodity” and a “means to an end”, his trial heard.

#VATICAN VOTE: Pope Leo XIV voted from the Vatican via postal ballot for next week’s US midterm elections.

PARTING SHOT

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