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

IRELAND

Aer Lingus pilots led by union leader Mark Tighe. Leah Farrell Leah Farrell

• Aer Lingus accepted a recommendation by the Labour Court today to increase their pilot’s pay by 17.75%.
• Convicted criminal Cathal Crotty is to be sacked from the Defence Forces on Thursday, The Journal learned. 
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he is committed to the principles of the Good Friday Agreement when considering the possibility of a referendum on Irish unity while visiting Belfast today.
• A Dublin taxi driver who raped two young women in separate incidents in 2022 was also convicted of raping a seven-year-old girl over a decade ago, a court heard.
• The Green Party elected Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman as their new leader by a thin margin.
• Criminal barristers across Ireland said they would withdraw their services tomorrow in a protest against the lack of progress on pay restoration, in the first of three days of withdrawal this month.
• A teenage boy admitted to the murder of Offaly woman Lorna Woodnutt.

INTERNATIONAL

Horses walk through a flooded field after Beryl moved through Matagorda, Texas. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

#UKRAINE: Russia launched air strikes across Ukraine, killing at least 33 people and in one case hitting a children’s hospital in Kyiv. 

#PALESTINE: The Lancet medical journal warned that the true death toll in Gaza could be close to 190,000.

#USA: US President Joe Biden urged his party members to either back his candidacy in the Presidential election this November or to contest his place at the party’s convention next month.

#AVIATION: Boeing was set to plead guilty to fraud in a deal with the US Department of Justice over two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019.

#BERYL: Storm Beryl strengthened to a hurricane before hitting the southern US state of Texas today

PARTING SHOT

IT MIGHT HAVE been hot and sunny today but don’t let that get you thinking the summer is here to stay. 

Met Éireann has issued a 24-hour Status Yellow rain warning for tomorrow from 4am to 4am Wednesday morning.

Areas affected will be counties in Leinster, Cavan, Monaghan, Leitrim, Roscommon, Tipperary, and Waterford.