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

IRELAND

Billie Eilish performing at Electric Picnic today. Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie / RollingNews.ie

• US Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Ireland has been brought forward to Monday, it was confirmed.
• The High Court granted a permanent order against blockades by farmers protesting outside meat factories.
• A probationary garda was arrested for allegedly stealing cash from a wallet that was handed into his station.
• A no-deal Brexit will plunge Northern Ireland into turmoil, the High Court in Belfast heard.
• More than 9,000 students have appealed their Leaving Cert results – a 74% increase on the number in 2018.
• Ryanair announced that Eddie Wilson will succeed Michael O’Leary as the chief executive of the company. 
• Businesswoman Deirdre Foley last year shared in a €16.49 million dividend payout arising from the sale of the former Clerys department store site.
• A rainfall warning for the west of the country will remain in place until tomorrow morning.
• Electric Picnic kicked off in Stradbally, Co Laois.

WORLD

An employee from auction house Christie's with a version of Banksy's 'Girl with Balloon' near one of the locations the artwork originally appeared on the Southbank in London. Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire/PA Images Stefan Rousseau / PA Wire/PA Images / PA Wire/PA Images

#BRITAIN: Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended suspending parliament, as former prime minister John Major joined the legal action being taken against Johnson over the move. 

#BRAZIL: A 60-day ban on burning in Brazil came into effect following a global outcry over fires raging in the Amazon.

#US: Residents in Florida are preparing themselves for Hurricane Dorian, which is set to make land this weekend. 

PARTING SHOT

Local businessman Jack Ruby approaches and fires a gun at Lee Harvey Oswald, centre, in handcuffs (James R Leavelle is on the left in the paler suit). Jack Beers / Dallas Morning News/MCT Jack Beers / Dallas Morning News/MCT / Dallas Morning News/MCT

James R Leavelle, the detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when the killer of John F Kennedy was shot dead by Jack Ruby, has died at the age of 99.

Here, the Guardian looks back at the historic events of November 1963. 

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