The current climate
by Bernard Harbor

Don't despair if you missed Niall (who was up with the larks to bat for school secretaries) on this morning's Newstalk Breakfast. You can catch him doing the weekly news review with Matt Cooper on Today FM at around 4.30 this afternoon.

 

Also tune in to RTÉ Radio One between 10.30 and 11.30 to hear Andy Pike talk about the strike with Sean O'Rourke. If you can't wait for that, try this from the Irish Times, this from RTÉ, or one of the many interviews set up for local radio this morning.

 

Trade unions around the world have backed today's Climate Action Strike. They include Fórsa and other Irish organisations that yesterday called for the establishment of a National Just Transition Taskforce. We've also helped the students' campaign with media work this week, and have 14-year-old Grainne O'Sullivan from North Wicklow Educate Together on Morning Ireland sometime after 8am. That's too late for this DIgest, but it should be up on the site later today.

 

Meanwhile, George Lee has this, the Examiner has this, and Channel 4 News's weather forecast will be "taken over" this evening. There's plenty more on this story in the press, here and abroad.

 

In other news, eir's rural broadband provision is under fire, former Siptu leader Jack O'Connor has pulled out of the Wicklow Dáil race, and Ryanair shareholders are unhappy at its CEO's pay package.

 

On Brexit, the Examiner gets infected by the mild case of deal-on giddiness that's broken out across the water, where the Supreme Court is set to rule on the legality of suspending Parliament early next week.

 

Speaking of Blighty, I was over there on Wednesday when my sister introduced me to the music of Olu Dura. Not sure how I missed him over the years, but here's Harlem Country Girl for Zen.

 

Get yerself a cut of that culture.

 

Bernard

 

 

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