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

IRELAND

Michael D Higgins walks through a guard of honour at Howth this afternoon. Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

• The Seanad is to reconvene to hold a debate on the Gaza crisis.
• Two people have been airlifted from Croagh Patrick.
• Waterford Crystal workers may finally have their pensions sorted.
• RTE has apologised for ‘confusion’ over its Gaza woman footage.
• Anyone abused by Jimmy Savile in Ireland has been urged to come forward.
• Today marks 100 years since the Asgard gunship landed at Howth.
  
• A man has died in the Twelve Bens mountains in Galway.

INTERNATIONAL

An Israeli tank fires towards Gaza this morning before the truce began. AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

#GAZA: Hamas has agreed to a 24-hour humanitarian truce, just hours after Israel broke an earlier ceasefire. The truce will last until 2pm on Monday (11am GMT).

#MH17: Dutch police have had to scrap plans to visit the site of the MH17 crash amid security concerns.

#OUTBREAK: An American doctor who moved to Africa to help Ebola patients has himself fallen sick with the disease.

INNOVATION

• Let’s face it: your computer is never going to be as fast as it was when you first bought it – but here are a few things you can do to speed it up without spending a cent. 
• Spain has brought in a new so-called ’Google tax‘ which will allow media in the country to charge Google and other search engines for linking to their copyrighted material. The problem is that no-one is quite sure how it’s going to work. [QZ]

PARTING SHOT

We cannot let it go on.

This clip of Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow has been going viral today. In it, Snow recounts the scene inside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, where doctors are struggling to treat children and adults wounded in the ongoing attacks. “I can’t get those images out of my mind,” he says.