Your top stories on Tuesday: Rain warning for 18 counties today; Aer Lingus accepts Labour Court proposals

Weather forecast: Rain warning for 18 counties with risk of local flooding

A 24-hour rain warning has been issued for 18 counties from early Tuesday.

The status yellow warning came into effect at 4am and lasts until 4am on Wednesday, with Met Éireann forecasting “persistent and heavy” rain at times.

Highest temperatures of 13 to 18 degrees. Tonight, rain will continue over Ulster, north Connacht and the northern half of Leinster. It will be drier further south with some clear spells developing in Munster. Lowest temperatures of 8 to 11 degrees.

News in Ireland

• Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions reach lowest level in three decades: Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 6.8 per cent last year, with reductions achieved in almost all sectors, ensuring the lowest overall level in three decades, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
• Developer will not get ‘one more penny’ for higher price on Oscar Traynor homes: The developer of Dublin City Council’s “flagship” affordable housing scheme at Oscar Traynor Road will not get “one more penny” from the increased price of the homes, council officials have confirmed.
• Dublin Bus chief urges city council executive not to ‘water down’ Dublin City Centre Transport Plan: Chief executive of Dublin Bus Billy Hann has urged Dublin city management not to “water down” the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan.
• Aer Lingus accepts Labour Court proposals of 17.75% pay rise for pilots: Prospects of a breakthrough in the Aer Lingus pilots’ dispute hung in the balance on Monday after the airline accepted Labour Court proposals boosting pay by 17.75 per cent while the union continued to consider the deal.
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World

• Kyiv hospital missile strike: ‘I saw one of the doctors lying there, dead’: The Ohmatdyt children’s hospital in central Kyiv has been a source of hope for hundreds of families during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – a place that can save the lives of the war’s youngest victims and, through expert treatment and prosthetics, help them to see and walk and hold things again, writes Daniel McLaughlin in Kyiv.

Your Money

• 12 ways supermarkets get us to spend money: Supermarkets are very skilled at getting us to spend money. Here are just some of the ways they do that without you realising.

Opinion

• The Debate: Should inheritance tax be cut in the budget?
• John Sweeney: Failure to curtail our greenhouse gas emissions could cost us two children’s hospitals

Business

• Budget blunders: What Jack Chambers shouldn’t do: He’s barely been in the job a wet week but, already, newly appointed Minister for Finance Jack Chambers has to start thinking about October’s budget.

Sports

• Football semi-finalists prioritise not losing, but hurling semi-finalists went out to win: As a starting point I watched Sunday’s semi-final between Limerick and Cork and was as enthralled as anybody.

Life & Style

• When the grants are gone, will EVs be more expensive to run than petrol cars?: Right now, assuming the electric car you’re buying costs less than €40,000, you qualify for the full hit of grants and rebates, which include a maximum €5,000 rebate on Vehicle Registration Tax, and a €3,500 EV purchase grant from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).

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