LAST UPDATE | 11 Jul
GOOD MORNING.
Here’s all the news you need to know as you start your day.
1. In our main story this morning, Niall O’Connor reports that an Irish company specialising in high-tech drones including specialist drug interdiction military equipment has been granted special permission to use airspace off the Clare coast.
A-techsyn is a firm that manufacturers the unmanned aircraft at their factory in Shannon Co Clare.
2. The Irish Airline Pilots’ Association have recommended its members accept a Labour Court recommendation to increase their pay by 17.75%.
The choice will now be put to its members through an electronic ballot. If agreed, the pay deal would cover a four-year period from January 1 2023 to the end of 2026.
3. The Climate Change Advisory Council has said that the reliance on expensive, imported fossil fuels “needs to end” so that people can afford to heat their homes sustainably.
The CCAC made the call in a new report which found that emissions from buildings fell by 6% in 2023, said to be partly due to the high price of fossil fuels.
4. The inquest into the deaths of four young people in a road crash on their way to celebrate Leaving Cert results in Clonmel will begin today in the Tipperary town.
Grace McSweeney, 18, her brother Luke, 24, and friends Zoey Coffey, 18, Nicole Murphy 18, died in the collision on 25 August 2023.
5. Tánaiste Micheál Martin will meet with new Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn later today at Hillsborough Castle.
Benn was Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary and retained this position following Labour’s landslide election last week.
6. The High Court has appointed provisional liquidators to businesses that operate 11 health food stores in the Leinster area.
The appointments were made in respect of GNC Well Ireland Unlimited Company, and the related THSD Unlimited Company which has 86 full and part time employees.
7. Gardaí are renewing their appeal for information in relation to the investigation into the murder of 27-year-old Antoinette Smith, whose remains were discovered on Glendoo Mountain on 3 April 1988.
It is now 37 years since Antoinette Smith was last seen on O’Connell Street, Dublin.
8. US President Joe Biden will later today give his first press conference since his disastrous debate against Donald Trump, as Nato leaders hold talks with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Biden’s press conference will wrap up the Nato summit in Washington, where the military alliance is marking its 75th anniversary.
9. A man has been charged over the seizure of cocaine worth €3 million in Dublin.
The drugs were seized during a search operation in the Clondalkin area on Tuesday. The search was carried out by gardaí attached to the Serious Crime South in Clondalkin and Ballyfermot.
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