LAST UPDATE | 27 May

GOOD MORNING.

Here’s all the news you need to start the day.

Climate Action Plan 

1. Ireland is on course to deliver only half the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions required by 2030.

Forecast

2. Temperatures could reach 31C in some parts of the country today, but there is unsettled weather on the way.

Dublin Airport

3. Around 160 Irish peacekeepers have been welcomed home from Lebanon after their deployment to Lebanon as part of the United Nations Interim Force Lebanon (Unifil).

Middle East

4. Israel said today it had killed the new head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, while strikes on southern Lebanon killed 31 people, both on Tuesday.

Going nuclear

5. Fianna Fáil members have approved a bill to permit Irish governments to consider the use of nuclear energy in meeting Ireland’s future energy needs.

Builders’ roundtable

6. Ireland’s construction firms and state agencies have told the government that there is a widespread shortage of specialised construction and infrastructure workers, resulting in delays to projects in the sector. 

Sunbeds

7. A newly formed coalition of cancer charities, medical organisations and advocacy groups has called on the government to introduce a total ban on sunbeds, warning they are contributing to rising melanoma rates in Ireland.

White House

8. It has played host to countless world leaders and moments in history. Now US President Donald Trump has built a huge cage-fighting arena on the White House’s South Lawn.

Thalidomide

9. Labour leader Ivana Bacik has called on the government to issue a formal State apology to thalidomide survivors.