Aer Lingus pilots halt industrial action
Aer Lingus pilots halted industrial action at the airline as their union leaders backed a 17.75 per cent pay rise offer late on Wednesday night, but some passengers still face cancelled flights into early next week.
Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (Ialpa) officials agreed to recommend that its Aer Lingus members vote for the Labour Court-brokered deal to boost pay by 17.75 per cent and to immediately lift a work to rule that has upended the travel plans of almost 86,000 passengers.
- Full list of cancalled Aer Lingus flights
News in Ireland
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- ‘Over the moon’: Tori Towey hopes to return to Ireland on Thursday: Irishwoman Tori Towey was on Wednesday night hoping to return to Ireland on Thursday after charges against her were dropped by Dubai prosecutors.
- Behind the luxury image, Dubai’s laws and customs create issues for expatriates: The case of Irishwoman Tori Towey has put a spotlight on the difficulties some expatriates can face in a legal system very different to the one they are used to.
- Third elephant at Dublin Zoo tests positive for deadly virus: A third elephant at Dublin Zoo has tested positive for a deadly virus that has killed two young members of the small herd.
- Burning of mock police car in bonfire ‘wrong on every level’: The burning of a mock police car on top of a bonfire in Co Tyrone has been widely criticised.
- Weather forecast: Today will start cloudy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle lingering in Leinster and east Munster, and isolated showers elsewhere. It will turn drier through the morning as the drizzle clears and sunny spells develop, with just well scattered showers for the rest of the day. Highest temperatures of 14 to 19 degrees. Tonight will be mainly dry apart from a few light showers in the west and north. Lowest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees.
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TV & Radio Review
- Fish-out-of-water TV is back and it’s great fun: The enjoyable new BBC1 drama, The Turkish Detective, is a cosy crime caper about a London cop who joins a police department in Istanbul in order to speak English at people and investigate cosy murders, writes Patrick Freyne.
Opinion
- Finn McRedmond: Don’t blame Jill Biden for her husband’s refusal to bow out of the campaign
- Brian Caulfield: Only one in four travelling to Dublin city do so by car. Should they monopolise so much space?
Sports
- South Africa vs Ireland: Garry Ringrose could return at 13 among a number of Irish changes: Simon Easterby was the bearer of good news at Northwood School in Durban on Wednesday confirming that Ireland’s lengthy injury list had dissipated with just hooker Dan Sheehan and scrumhalf Craig Casey ruled out of Saturday’s second Test against South Africa at Kings Park (4pm Irish time).
World
- Renewed pressure on Biden as first Senate Democrat urges him to withdraw from re-election bid: US president Joe Biden faced mounting opposition within his own party on Wednesday as a Senate Democrat joined a growing number of House legislators in calling on him to step aside from the US presidential election.
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