GOOD MORNING. Here’s all the news that you need to know as you start your day. Aer Lingus pilots at Dublin Airport as part of the ongoing dispute over pay which has seen hundreds of flight cancelled during the busiest travel season.
Members of the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (IALPA) will partake in an eight-hour today from 5am to 1pm. The all-out strike is part of a broader strike, with pilots starting indefinite work-to-rule industrial action this week. Irish fans of international pop megastar Taylor Swift as the US superstar kicked off three nights of her blockbuster Eras Tour in Dublin last night.
Swift was high on praise for Ireland and its culture during the long, energetic, spectacle-heavy set. Thousands filled the stadium, many donning friendship bracelets and cowboys boots, and making the south Dublin venue sparkle with their colourful, creative outfits. Children’s Minister Roderic O’Gorman any shake ups to Cabinet if he wins the Green Party leadership contest.
Except if there is “a very strong reason”, he told this week. O’Gorman and Minister of State Senator Pippa Hackett are both contesting to be the next leader of the Green Party. Fianna Fáil after one of its former TDs – who has been distanced from the party after he “didn’t do enough” about a disclosure that his cousin had sexually abused children – appeared at an event to celebrate one of the party’s councillors being elected as mayor.
Brendan Kenneally’s appearance at the v.
