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

The coffin of Liam Hawes arriving at St Mary's Church for his family's funeral. PA WIRE PA WIRE

IRELAND

• The Hawe family were laid to rest in Cavan
• A man’s body was discovered in a wooded area in Kildare
• The ASTI announced it will ballot teachers for industrial actio
• Shane Ross said Pat Hickey ‘ate me for breakfast‘
• A fresh appeal was launched for information about Raonaid Murray‘s murder
• Up to 50,000 people are affected by a boil water notice in Mayo
• Patients at three Irish hospitals raved about the food
• It rained – a lot.

WORLD

A man watches the rising water from his home in North Carolina after a tropical storm hit parts of the US. Tom Copeland Tom Copeland

#HISTORIC: The US and China have signed up to the Paris accord, committing to the fight against global warming.

#RESCUED: A Medecins Sans Frontieres doctor has described what it was like to treat premature twins rescued from a rubber dingy in the Mediterranean.

#ITALY: A dog was pulled from the rubble of a house, nine days after a deadly earthquake struck.

#SYRIA: Turkey has sent more tanks into a Syrian village to fight Islamic State extremists.

#CHINA: The world’s longest glass bridge has closed because it was too popular.

INNOVATION

Nasa released the first close-up images of Jupiter‘s poles. [Aljazeera]

Waterproof gadgets made a splash at Berlin’s tech fair. [AFP]

PARTING SHOT

If you’re not at Electric Picnic tonight, the soggy scenes pictured here will make you feel better about it.