# orlando - Wednesday 17 June, 2020
# NBA
From The42
# NBA
On top of coronavirus fears, many players feel they ought to sit out the restarted season as a protest against police killings.
# orlando - Thursday 30 May, 2019
# Taking A Stand
From The42
# Taking A Stand
Brazil star Marta has her say on the absence of Norway’s Ada Hegerberg from the Women’s World Cup.
# orlando - Wednesday 27 March, 2019
# Orlando
# Orlando
The Federal Aviation Agency is investigating the incident.
# orlando - Saturday 7 July, 2018
# Florida
# Florida
Up to 200 Irish clients in the last two years have made investments through one company alone.
# orlando - Tuesday 12 June, 2018
# Florida
# Florida
The children aged one, six, 10 and 11 were found dead by officers overnight.
# orlando - Friday 30 March, 2018
# Orlando
# Orlando
Noor Salman, 31, began sobbing with joy when she was found not guilty.
# orlando - Tuesday 27 March, 2018
# Seddique Mateen
# Seddique Mateen
Omar Mateen, the attacker, died in the 12 June 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub.
# orlando - Monday 5 June, 2017
# Orange County
# Orange County
Police called it a “workplace violence incident” and said there were no apparent links to terror.
# orlando - Thursday 2 March, 2017
# Electronic Tagging
# Electronic Tagging
Prosecutors had argued she should be kept behind bars because she posed a threat to society.
# orlando - Monday 16 January, 2017
# Pulse Nightclub
# Pulse Nightclub
Noor Salman was taken into custody by the FBI earlier today and is due in court tomorrow.
# orlando - Thursday 5 January, 2017
# The 49
# The 49
On 12 June, 2016, a gunman opened fire inside the nightclub, killing 49 people and wounding 53 in America’s deadliest mass shooting.
# orlando - Sunday 28 August, 2016
# Southwest Airlines
# Southwest Airlines
The plane was taken out of service after landing safely in Florida.
# orlando - Wednesday 3 August, 2016
# Animal Cruelty
# Animal Cruelty
According to a police report, a 45-year-old father of two was visiting Busch Gardens theme park in Florida with his family when he reached into a pen, picked up the flamingo and threw her down.
# orlando - Saturday 9 July, 2016
# Emergency
# Emergency
Emergency officials have stressed, however. that a voice call is preferred because dispatchers can elicit details more quickly.
# orlando - Friday 24 June, 2016
# Omar Mateen
# Omar Mateen
Law enforcement officials have said they believe Mateen was radicalised at some point before the Pulse nightclub attack.
# orlando - Thursday 23 June, 2016
# Mass Shooting
# Mass Shooting
The man, known only as Miguel, claims Mateen said he was going to make the Puerto Rican gay community ‘pay’.
# orlando - Tuesday 21 June, 2016
# Orlando
# Orlando
The Republican-controlled Senate couldn’t even agree to restrict the sale of firearms to suspected terrorists.
# orlando - Monday 20 June, 2016
# Pulse Nightclub
# Pulse Nightclub
The shooter identified himself as an “Islamic soldier” in the calls.
# orlando - Sunday 19 June, 2016
# Orlando
From The Daily Edge
# Orlando
“To Luis, who died for love.”
# orlando - Saturday 18 June, 2016
# America
# America
More funerals are expected to take place over the weekend as the city continues to mourn.
# orlando - Friday 17 June, 2016
# Pulse
From The Daily Edge
# Pulse
All the proceeds go straight to the families of the victims.
# orlando - Thursday 16 June, 2016
# Senate
# Senate
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy spoke about the Newtown school massacre, which saw the loss of 26 people, mostly children, in 2012.
# Omar Mateen
# Omar Mateen
Omar Mateen also spoke of the “filthy ways of the west”.
# orlando - Wednesday 15 June, 2016
# Orlando Shooting
# Orlando Shooting
Helen Ubiñas has received hate mail after writing about the experience.
# Noor Mateen
# Noor Mateen
He had also planned an attack at Walt Disney World.
# orlando - Tuesday 14 June, 2016
# Omar Mateen
# Omar Mateen
50 people were killed in gun attack by Omar Mateen at Florida gay nightclub Pulse.
# Leinster House
# Leinster House
The Taoiseach confirmed the Irish flag will be flown at half mast at Government Buildings and Leinster House as a mark of respect.
# Opinion
# Opinion
Conor Behan DJs at gay club The George, and says that it’s important we recognise the Orlando attack was an attack on the LGBT community.
# Islamic State
# Islamic State
The US President has said the massacre appears to be “homegrown extremism”.
# Omar Mateen
# Omar Mateen
Clubgoers told a local paper the 29-year-old would drink heavily and get “loud and belligerent” in the gay club.
# orlando - Monday 13 June, 2016
# City Hall
# City Hall
A large crowd – some draped in rainbow flags and holding balloons and other items – gathered at about 7pm this evening for the vigil.
# Opinion
# Opinion
“We need to rally around our LGBTI brothers and sisters… and to defy the absolute evil [of] groups like Islamic State,” writes security expert Tom Clonan.
# Mass Shooting
# Mass Shooting
Tributes have been paid to the 50 victims.
# Omar Mateen
# Omar Mateen
The attack, the worst mass shooting in modern US history, was carried out at Orlando ’s Pulse nightclub, a well-known gay hangout.
# orlando - Sunday 12 June, 2016
# America
# America
The suspect’s father has said his son may have been motivated by homophobia and not by his Muslim faith.
# orlando - Tuesday 30 June, 2015
# Having A Giraffe
From The Daily Edge
# orlando - Friday 12 June, 2015
# Thats Nice
# Thats Nice
Their bags, containing passports and money, were taken from their hotel room.
# orlando - Sunday 23 November, 2014
# orlando - Wednesday 19 March, 2014
# Waterworld
From The Daily Edge
# Waterworld
There was “chaos”, according to one diner.
# orlando - Sunday 22 September, 2013
# Ground Control
# Ground Control
The oldest operating rollercoaster in Florida was a feat of engineering at its time – and still looks impressive.
Some sun, then increasing clouds
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Patchy low clouds and fog, then cloudy
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