Your Friday evening catch-up

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

IRELAND

The Garda Síochana Ombudsman Commission has opened an investigation into the circulating video of a Garda using force at a property auction in Wexford. In a statement from GSOC the body said they had opened an investigation into “events seen in a video on social media, which appears to show the policing of a protest at a property auction in Gorey, Co. Wexford.”

Two people have died and a number of others are injured after a collision in Co Donegal.

Gardai have said they are examining how information connected to an on-going investigation entered the public domain.

Mairia Cahill is ruling out a Dáil bid following her election to Seanad Eireann.

The Irish former Top Gear producer who was punched and verbally abused by Jeremy Clarkson is suing him for racial discrimination.

WORLD

Egypt Air has been banned from flying to Russia, a move that follows the suspension of all Russian flights to Egypt after a deadly plane crash in October. Russian state aviation agency Rosaviatsiya formally notified Moscow’s Domodedovo airport, where all flights by Egypt’s national carrier arrive, that the ban will be effective from Saturday, an airport spokesman said.

The bodies of seven babies have been found in a German town.

Two primary schools have been forced to close after they became infested with false widow spiders.

An 80-year-old mobster grinned as he walked out of a US courthouse following his surprising acquittal on charges he helped plan a 1978 heist retold in the Mafia film Goodfellas.