The escalation of the industrial dispute at Emerald Airlines is covered this morning. You can read more on that here and here. Niall Shanahan spoke to Highland Radio in Donegal about the dispute. The Dublin-Donegal service is one of the key routes flown by Emerald for Aer Lingus regional. Highland's report and interview playback is available here.

The Times reports that the subminimum wage system for young workers has been described as discriminatory by Irish Congress of Trade Unions.

The Minister for Health is expected to announce full public funding for a cycle of IVF for eligible couples from September at today’s Cabinet meeting.

Fórsa’s Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown branch held an anti-racism demonstration yesterday afternoon. You can check out more on that here.

A new study shows that almost 60 per cent of couples with children say that one partner has given up work due to the cost of childcare, and in the majority of cases that person was a woman.

The searing heatwaves impacting Europe and North America would have been almost impossible without climate change, rapid attribution analysis by scientists shows. Meanwhile, the Climate Advisory Change Council has warned that Ireland will not meet its carbon budget targets for 2021 to 2025 or for 2026 to 2030.

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