Your Friday evening catch-up

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

IRELAND

Cork’s Oliver Plunkett Street was today named  the best in Ireland and the UK.  The street was the only one in Ireland in the running for ‘The Great Street Award 2016’, and was announced as the overall winner at the Urbanism Awards Ceremony in London this afternoon.

Gardaí in Kerry are investigating the circumstances  surrounding the death of a man in his 40s  after his body was found in his living room.

Gardaí have recovered a stolen ATM in Co Monaghan.  It was found stashed in a white transit van  in Drumass in Inniskeen this morning.

Concerned chemical engineering students at University College Cork  have been told every effort  is being made to reverse the loss of accreditation for their degrees caused by a delay in replacing a professor.

The family of a man who bled to death after waiting  almost 40 minutes  for an ambulance have blamed health cuts for his death.

The internet craze Nek Nomination played a part in the death of a DJ  who died after he “threw back” a pint of whiskey.

WORLD

Today Mars is a cold and arid desert planet with an atmosphere that is too thin  to support life.

Anti-racist campaigners have published a list of 1000 US citizens  they claim are sympathisers or supporters of the Ku Klux Klan.