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

IRELAND

Winner of the men's race, Colin Monaghan of the Dublin Swimming Club. Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie Eamonn Farrell / Rollingnews.ie / Rollingnews.ie

• Newstalk presenter George Hook apologised for comments he made about rape.
• Hundreds of swimmers took part in the annual Liffey Swim.
• The ASTI recommended its members reject the new public pay deal.
• The government said it is ‘disappointed’ the consumer watchdog refuses to join a group tasked to monitor bin charges. 
  
• Hundreds of frontline emergency workers paraded through Dublin.
• Mary Lou McDonald said the British don’t care that Brexit undermines the Good Friday Agreement.
• An Irish pilgrim died in Italy.
• Met Eireann issued a weather warning for Atlantic coastal counties.
• A number of Dublin City Councillors have said they believe Myanmar’s leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi should have the Freedom of Dublin award rescinded.
• A new Scientology centre which is to open and train hundreds of converts is just weeks away from opening in south Dublin.

WORLD

A vehicle drives down an empty Ocean Drive on South Beach, Miami. AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#USA: Over six million people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in Florida as Hurricane Irma approaches.

#MEXICO: The death toll from the Mexican earthquake has reached 61. Three days of national mourning have been declared.

#RIP: Country music’s ‘Gentle Giant’ Don Williams has died.

PARTING SHOT

Kerry TD Michael Healy Rae didn’t hold back at the launch of the Stephen Lyne Foundation launch of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here fundraiser today.

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