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EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE being plagued by heatwaves and wildfires once again this summer, with temperatures in Mediterranean countries hitting 40C and above this week.
Eleven people were killed by a massive wildfire in Turkey last night while fires have also led to the evacuation of several villages in Greece, which is experiencing its earliest ever heatwave that has claimed the lives of several tourists.
Cyprus and Italy are also suffering extreme temperatures, with the Italian health ministry issuing red alerts for Rome and Palermo among other cities.
Scientists have warned that heatwaves and wildfires are becoming more common and lasting longer as a result of climate change.
Turkey
The deadly wildfire in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast occurred overnight, the country’s health minister said.
Hundreds of animals also perished or were badly injured in the blaze that roared across the dry landscape, sending flames into the night sky.
By morning the fire had left huge areas of charred and blackened land across the Diyarbakir and Mardin provinces.
“Eleven people lost their lives,” Health Minister Fahrettin Koca wrote on X, adding that another 78 people suffered injuries and smoke inhalation.
Of that number, five people were being treated in intensive care, he said.
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM party, which won many municipalities in the southeast in the March local elections, criticised the government’s intervention as “late and insufficient”.
During the night, DEM had urged the government to send water bomber planes, saying fighting the blaze from the ground was “not enough”.
An AFP reporter in Koksalan village in Diyarbakir province saw around 100 animals lying dead on the ground.
Residents told the news agency around half their flock of about 1,000 sheep and goats had been killed by the fire.
Seracettin Bedirhanoglu, a member of the opposition CHP party and leader of the eastern Van province, described the images as “unbearable”, urging vets to go to the area to help treat the wounded animals.
Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on X the public prosecutor’s office had opened a probe into the cause of the fire.
Turkey has suffered 74 wildfires so far this year, which have devastated 12,910 hectares of land, according to the European Forest Fire Information System.
Greece
Firefighters have been battling wildfires on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece for the third day in a row and several villages have had to be evacuated.
At least four major blazes were recorded in the southern peninsula in an area between 150 to 250 kilometres southwest of Athens.
The fires claimed their first victim today when a 55-year-old man collapsed and died while helping to fight one of the blazes.
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Dozens of firefighters were battling to contain a fire near a power station outside the town of Magapoli, supported by 12 vehicles, six water-bomber planes and two helicopters, according to the Greek news agency ANA.
“The conditions are extremely challenging,” fire department spokesman Vassilis Vathrakogiannis told reporters.
“The wind speeds have exceeded 95 kilometres per hour in some regions,” Vathrakogiannis said, adding that this was making life difficult for planes dropping water on the fires.
In all, he said “45 fire outbreaks have been recorded across the country,” the spokesman said.
The fire service had quickly contained a blaze that erupted near the seaside resort of Mavro Lithari close to the capital, he said, while urging civilians to take precautions.
Since Wednesday, Greek authorities have warned of a very high wildfire risk due to strong winds and high temperatures.
Two villages and three private schools were evacuated near Koropi on Wednesday due to a fire that broke out 30 kilometres southeast of Athens.
Accustomed to searing summer heat, Greece has been preparing for a particularly difficult wildfire season for weeks.
In 2023, Greece experienced an unprecedented two-week heatwave followed by devastating wildfires.
The flames consumed nearly 175,000 hectares of forest and farmland, according to the National Observatory of Athens.
Italy
In Rome, where the air force recorded a peak of 39C on Thursday afternoon, the city hall has installed potted palm trees at bus stops to provide some shade.
While the capital has many parks and is dotted with drinking water fountains in addition to the decorative ones, there are also many streets and piazzas with little to no cover from the sun.
The occasional palm was not enough to offset the sauna-like heat and during lunchtimes this week, many have spurned outside tables for the cool of air-conditioned restaurants.
“We’ll go back to the hotel for a while to avoid the hottest hours,” Anna Verna, an Italian tourist to Rome, told AFP while visiting an area near the famous Spanish Steps.
“Then we’ll go out again… Rome is beautiful, so we want to enjoy it even in the heat.”
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace took a thermal camera onto the streets of Rome and found temperatures above 50C at certain spots, including the Colosseum.
Last year, Rome recorded a record peak temperature of 42.9C on 18 July, according to city hall.
“A record, unfortunately, that we risk breaking this summer,” said Sabrina Alfonsi, lead councillor for the environment.
“Summer has already exploded, even though it is still June.”
With reporting from AFP
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Amazing. All the unions are out of their rabbit holes now. Ask you union rep how much of a paycut did they take over the last 8 years. You will be amused to find out their wages have increased over that time
Well Ger I see plenty of mercs and bmws around the place these days… Plenty of money in this country and glad to see some pockets of workers are growing a pair and looking for better conditions… If other workers want to do nothing to improve their situation that’s there’s choice. They need to realise that an average worker who says nothing gets nothing.
And those who stay in a job they think they are underpaid in should get a better job. That’s the only proof they were underpaid in the first place.
Far too much sense of entitlement these days. A job in a bar is a job in a bar. It’s simply not a complex well paid professional role like a Luas Driver.
@Allister: You see plenty of people signing-up to silly PCP deals to drive a 161! The ability to finance the depreciation on a vehicle does not = a capability to pay staff over the odds. The pub business in this country is really struggling.
“That fella has a merc! I should get paid more for unskilled work because … look at richie rich over there!”
FFS. I was working behind a bar at 16. It took all of 2 weeks to learn to serve most any drink and to change kegs, gas etc. Someone more senior would do the tills, cashing out etc, and got paid more than me. Supervisors and managers opened up and locked up and got paid more again.
What to people honestly expect for serving drinks? I was getting about £3.50 for suburban bar work when I started in 1998/1999, and about £4.50 in 1999/2000 for city centre nightclub work. In other words, about 1.5 times the price of a pint of Heineken. Seems about consistent with inflation.
I’d imagine every pub in the country has no shortage of people willing to work. Every day some 18/19 year old will walk in with a CV looking for work, and they only need a few weeks training. My experience was that you start on a low rate and get 50c to a euro afterwards when you’re competent.
Medal parade for Ronan!, I wonder how you would cope in a modern day Niteclub Ronan with all the different drinks and cocktails on offer?, some bar staff would not get home till around 5am by the time they clean up and then be back in the next morning to open up, go home for a few hours and then back in later on for the busy night shift, this is common practice and all for the lowest wage the employer can get away with!.
Would you stand for that when you were working as a barman?, many just accept this through gritted teeth because they need the money most other jobs available in todays Ireland come with similar credentials.
@Ronan there is a difference between doing a job to earn money as a student as opposed to having it as your income to pay rent and the cost of actually living. In countries like the US a barman is considered to be a trade and remunerated accordingly – the big difference of course is that americans appreciate this and tip accordingly.
People like you seem to think because you worked a little bit in the local for a basic wage that somehow that means that everyone for ever more should as well… i don’t think employers should pay more especially if things are tight – but a cultural shift in peoples attitudes is key exemplified by your glib attitude.. tip the person who serves you pocket change to you obviously but tallied together a living wage for a barman
What a load of coddswallop, there are thousands of bars around the country supported by just one elderly person. So if the bar trade is such a fantastic business then where are the younger generation to run them and let the older folks retire with some dignity. In the town where I live there are three bars closed in recent years because the owners have died and two remaining which are run by elderly widows.
Maybe they don’t want to open bars in the middle of nowhere, Chris. It’s a sad reality that young people are leaving rural areas – either by emmigrating or moving to bigger towns/cities – so not enough customers to make running a business in some places viable.
Ireland always had a problem of small towns having too many pubs anyway.
Like I said, I worked in a bar and I worked in what was then one of the busiest nightclubs in Cork. It was as tough then as it is now. Just as messy, just as many bottle bins to empty.
Array of cocktails? Give me a break. No different to a suburban pub on a winters night when someone orders an Irish coffee or a hot port and suddenly everyone thinks its a great idea.
If anything bar staff are far worse than they were in my day. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen staff in a city center bar or club take more than one order at a time. God forbid some ould lad drinking alone would give them a nod for another Guinness, they’d think he was saying hello not calling his next pint.
@Old Gabby Johnson,
If you’re trying to pay rent and live from bar work you’re on a hiding to nothing. For non supervisor/manager roles it should be a stop gap. Anyone I worked with who was not a student had a day job and did the nightclub/bar work for extra money.
I have sympathy with those on zero hour contracts and I’d like to see employees protected. I also have no issue with bar staff looking for a living wage. It’s a crappy job – but it’s never going to be more than a crappy job.
You can’t unionize and elevate all these crappy jobs to the point that everyone can afford a 3 bed semi in Dublin. The cost of those houses, rent, and other cost of living elements will increase because there will always be someone with the flexibility to spend more on renting that convenient apartment/room if the wages are higher.
Similarly, you can’t demand high wages for a job that a Spanish student can learn in 2 weeks and will provide flexibility around shifts. There’s too many people that are happy to take flexible bar work – unsociable as the hours are, they’re perfect for students, and that creates demand for those positions at any wages.
Actually I know of several bars in the middle of nowhere that do quite well as bar/restaurants. There are opportunities for people who are prepared to work hard and build a reputation.
Why shouldn’t they get paid a living wage and have a rota in advance so they can have a healthy work/life balance? Someone has to do this type of work, and there aren’t enough high-skill jobs for everyone. Some people will always have to do the low skilled jobs, why should they have to scrap by?
Yes exactly. You not study for it. Its like a simple job everyone can start so i think its should be the minimum. As why they have otherwise a minimum. If they do well they earn tips as well. If they pay them 16 euros an hour I will go back to my waitress job too. 10 euro is very reasonable
Yes exactly. Why should a 19 year old get paid 35k to work. Or an older person that didn’t study get paid that. In the office they pay more but only for skilled people. Not for the basic administrator of 19th years. They all get 9 or 10 euro an hour and no permanent contract or sick leave.
And what about the positives? It provides employment to thousands of young people funding their education, who prefer casual style employment. It can be a second job for many people.
The answers is strong unions supported by all within the industry.
Entrepreneurs will always work to reduce costs and without unions employees will never be in a strong negotiating position. The decline in industry standards is due to the fact that the unions pulled out.
Many publics leveraged their good business to gamble on other industries they knew nothing about. With no unions to protect the employees a free fall took place with the main people who lost being the employees when the debts were called in.
Balance is created by the unions and the fact that their are no longer any in the hotel and bar trade has left entrepreneurs free to buy their labour at a minimum price with labour freely available thanks to the European experiment.
I can’t verify if you are right or wrong on that comment. Slave labour by some union standards reckons a 54% pay raise is needed. For some people bar work is their career and for others it’s an extra but of money for study etc… There is always a flip side to any debate
I was under the impressions that the 54 per cent was a figure leaked by the company to the media in the luas strikes in order to strengthen their negotiating hand.
On my understanding the real problem is the insistent by the company that a two tiered driver policy be put in place and that waves are secondary to ensuring a fair working environment is continued?
I am a country publican in a west of Ireland holiday resort, for 19years. We charge €4 a pint. I have never had a Christmas, Easter, or Bank Holiday off with my family. We struggle to pay massive mortgage, insurance, rates, energy bills, Sky, IMRO and other over heads in the off season. Every year we sponsor local Golf Club, GAA Club, Soccer Club, Festival, Agricultural Show, Tidy Towns, Marketing Group and various other charities. We employee local, pay more than minimum wage plus a drink or two when they finish work. This is union b…. Please do not tar us all with the same brush.
Anne I don’t think they are tarring you all with the same brush, fine you appreciate your staff but the fact is many bar staff are been exploited so why would you have a problem that these issues are been highlighted?.
Staff often won’t speak out for fear of losing their job or becoming a target for the bosses ire for daring to speak up for themselves.
Sad to say Anne you’re probably the exception that proves the rule. My partner often worked in a late bar from 2pm to 2am was lucky to get a 10min break. And they charge closer to €5 a pint!
Not every pub ‘makes millions’ the journal always assume every pub in Ireland is located in temple bar or harcourt street. Try check on a local pub that doesn’t charge €8 a pint and see how much they make at the end of a year, I bet 9/10 of them is a loss.
The nurses and care workers wages should be looked after first by unions. You know what you get when you sign up to be a barman, they don’t.
At the least they should be getting a break somewhere in an 8 hour shift, no? Take pay out of the equation and look to improving conditions for staff. Rosters could be sorted ahead of well ahead of time. None of this last second bullshit. This would allow for paid breaks as is everyone’s legal entitlement to a 15min break every 4.5hrs
That’s ridiculous, any bar I go into the bar staff are run completely off their feet and in return they are getting paid a pittance. Does the government help anyone anymore other than cashed up property developers?
Very few other bartenders I know are even a member of this union or know about entitlements. It’s true you work very anti social hours, rarely get more than ‘a smoke break’, and since the crash the wage has continued to drop. I was getting €12 an hour in a late night music bar in Dublin 10 years ago. Skip forward 3 and it was minimum wage and working hours were 10pm til 4am 2 to 3 nights a week. Always been like this but the bat trade is no longer a trade in most owner’s eyes and they’re not willing to pay for it. Good bar staff who pride themselves in their work get hit the most and are becoming less and less
Who would serve you your smirnoff ice then if they all left>?
There are many cogs in society each one must turn for it to work from A**holes like you to the people who serve a**holes like you when you’re in the pub watching the rugby with your heino swigging chums.
It is a outrage that many working class professionals can not afford the asking price of a roof over their head. It should be that if you work damn hard no matter what proffession you can aspire to purchase a property, what determines where and size is the advancement of your career.
Alphanautica…The irony being if everyone took your advice those well paid jobs would not longer be well paid, as companies could source employees at 10-a-penny
Not everyone has the aptitude either for some of these jobs. People here seem to forget that. IQs vary in Ireland between 90-110 on average. Doesnt mean people closer to the 90 mark are stupid, just that it will be more difficult and time consuming to learn skills. Not impossible, just more difficult.
Im blue in the face telling people about free courses on EdX and Coursera. Still though, at times it needs someone going through the material before with you before ‘you get it’.
It’s not just bar work that is underpaid. It’s rife in most sectors. The crash gave all employers the chance they needed to drive wages down and fall back on the excuse that they had to because they were struggling. I accept that some businesses were hit hard but some employers just took the urine with it and now 000′s of workers are getting screwed because of it
A good friend of mine is a bar man and he’s always complaining about wages and conditions. Yet he does nothing about it. I would walk if I was treated like that.
William, get real. There are plenty of jobs out there if you have the right skills and qualifications. Maybe William you are one of those that like things handed to them but I prefer to make my own future.
Well William, if you’re competing for better paid jobs with those who have been motivated enough to take steps to retrain or improve their qualifications, but you’ve not bothered because you expect someone to just come along and hand you a well-paid job, only one person is going to progress. It’s a reality check and it’s a harsh reality, but that’s the world we live in. Most of us have served time flipping burgers etc. at some point, but most of us have seen it as a temporary step to get by, whilst staying on the road to something better.
Buts that not the point avina its about how some employers are exploiting their staff, doesn’t matter what qualifications you have your employer has a duty to at least treat you with respect, many bar staff work damn hard and often work unholy hours for poor pay/
Well I’d certainly agree that all employers should treat their employees with respect at all times and give them their statutory entitlements, but any wage is based on skills, level of training/education, responsibility and experience. Like it or not, that’s the reality (as the Luas workers just found out).
They’re being paid poorly already, so obviously can’t save up enough to take time off work to study.
They work unsocial hours, zero-hour contracts with a lot of uncertainty week-to-week – how can they organise themselves to do this part time?
It’s tough, tiring work and deserves a decent wage. They do not deserve to be exploited.
Oh come off it Meatyslaps. You’re saying that because someone made a bad choice once and took a job as a barman, they’re now condemned to spend the rest of their working days in the same underpaid and overworked job with no prospect of ever ‘escaping’?? Grow up.
I never said it was easy Meatyslaps. Life isn’t easy, but everyone has to take personal responsibility for their path in life, and very often it takes tough choices and hard work.
Being a barman is as decent a job as any, so is sweeping the floors or stocking the shelves at Tesco. All work should pay enough to live, i.e. enough to eat, pay bills, rent etc. without stressing over it so much, if you’re working full time.
Issues with low-pay and uncertain hours make it completely impossible for anyone in these industries to plan ahead or try to “better themselves” (as you so elegantly put it).
I’m not looking down my nose. It’s just not a well paying job, never will be a well paying job and in reality shouldn’t be a well paying job.
“All work should pay enough to live, i.e. enough to eat, pay bills, rent etc. without stressing over it so much, if you’re working full time.”
Sure, but again that’s relative. If I want to live in Dublin City centre and eat out every night a job in a bar isn’t going to meet those needs. If I want to own rather than rent a bar job isn’t going to work there either.
“Issues with low-pay and uncertain hours make it completely impossible for anyone in these industries to plan ahead or try to “better themselves” (as you so elegantly put it).”
No it doesn’t. It doesn’t make it easy, for sure, but doesn’t make it impossible.
Unfortunately this is true with some people working 55 to 60 hours for 400 or less, 10 min breaks.. Thankfully not the case with all employers but there are still a lot of them out there.
Any gimp can pull a pint alright…..but try working Xmas..easter…paddy’s……..well all special occasions……when most others are living it up…that’s what makes it tuff..
Good read but will never happen its not a trade anymore im 12 years a bartender and its worse than the article explains anyone can pull a pint but takes time to serve a customer
Its a tough job working unsociable hours, on your feet all day, dealing with drunk members of the public. Its a job that doesn’t get the respect that it deserves.
They should be paid extra just for the amount of drunken nonsense they have to listen to on it’s own. (I know I’ve contributed to this type of nonsense on occasion!)
The pay rate is not determined by bosses or employees. it is determined by market demands. The easier the job, the cheaper the pay. Little training required, everyone can do it, you won’t expect high pay ever. Jumping out of McJob is the only way.
I can assure you Sean that there is an awful lot more to bar work than perfecting the skill of pulling the perfect pint of Guinness, all well and good pulling pints for a few locals during the week, but w/ends can be extremely busy remembering multiple orders, often accompanied with a cocktail or two for your female companions, any slacking and the workload keeps building up, working in busy late bars and niteclubs can be a nightmare sometimes, you would need the patience of a saint!.
Bill,
I had worked in a pub for 7 years. I worked 10-12 hours a day. I had the same thought as you that I deserve decent pay as I believed I worked so hard. But I forgot one thing, I can work hard, everyone else can do the same as well because it is easy job. There is no shortage of bar man supply in market. The competition is intensive. The boss doesn’t care because he can easily find replacement on market.
I decided to find a job more complex and not everyone can easily take. when I started my current job, I believe the bar job is far easier. Now I can negotiate the pay with my boss because I know replacing me will costs boss more than pay rise.
True, but figures apply to ‘bar workers’ including table staff who do get tipped.Taking my local as an example, behind the bar is the owner and the manager who serve the drinks , then 2-3 table staff who regularly get tipped, especially when serving food.
It’s a desirable second job for students and young people, the conditions may be difficult but I doubt it’s hard to find people for the position.
They don’t “deserve” anything else other than what the business chooses to pay them, bars aren’t an essential part of society.
Ar u serious? Bartenders spend years studying drinks techniques brands etc. All jus t help you when you cant tell the difference between a woo woo and a cosmo!
It’s a pity that an awful lot of bar staff don’t even know how to pull a pint ! Watch them pull a pint, in a lot of cases hands covering the top half of the glass where you will be sipping from and you wonder why you get a cold sore! Basic hygiene?
Where are the unions getting this idea that workers are in some type of profit sharing scheme. Company profits go up and the workers should share in that? They do not own the company. Yes workers should be paid a fair wage, but the government have determined that the fair wage is minimum wage, rightly or wrongly as the case may be. My personal opinion is that there shouldn’t be a minimum wage, but a living wage by county council. As we all know that it costs less to live in areas outside major urban centres. Unions will bring us back to the jolly up days of the late 90′s and early to mid 2000′s…
But they get tips I believe. A bar job is normally part-time and the people study and will switch when possible to something else. The time I work in a bar after some time you can tell your boss when you have other commitments and any normal boss understand you live not for him. You work the saturday and Friday but during the week you can ask off or twitxh with colleges. You talk to them and go to your boss. You ask to talk to him and explain him your situation or you leave and find a job in another bar were they reasonable as there are many bars. About your holidays. Everyone has holidays and if you work for 9 euro an hour and 2 euro tip an hour at least. That is 1800 or 2000 a month I believe if you work 8 hours. Free food included and a normal boss hive you a break as he will see the energy he get back. Otherwise you leave off course to a lower paid place on tips but reasonable boss
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Content presented to you on this service can be based on limited data, such as the website or app you are using, your non-precise location, your device type, or which content you are (or have been) interacting with (for example, to limit the number of times a video or an article is presented to you).
Use precise geolocation data 47 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, your precise location (within a radius of less than 500 metres) may be used in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Actively scan device characteristics for identification 27 partners can use this special feature
With your acceptance, certain characteristics specific to your device might be requested and used to distinguish it from other devices (such as the installed fonts or plugins, the resolution of your screen) in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Ensure security, prevent and detect fraud, and fix errors 93 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.
Deliver and present advertising and content 100 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
Certain information (like an IP address or device capabilities) is used to ensure the technical compatibility of the content or advertising, and to facilitate the transmission of the content or ad to your device.
Match and combine data from other data sources 73 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Information about your activity on this service may be matched and combined with other information relating to you and originating from various sources (for instance your activity on a separate online service, your use of a loyalty card in-store, or your answers to a survey), in support of the purposes explained in this notice.
Link different devices 55 partners can use this feature
Always Active
In support of the purposes explained in this notice, your device might be considered as likely linked to other devices that belong to you or your household (for instance because you are logged in to the same service on both your phone and your computer, or because you may use the same Internet connection on both devices).
Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically 91 partners can use this feature
Always Active
Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice.
Save and communicate privacy choices 69 partners can use this special purpose
Always Active
The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices.
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