Your top stories on Wednesday: Harris pledges to assist Irish woman detained in Dubai; hospital admissions due to hot weather set to rise

Irish hospital admissions due to hot weather projected to rise

Irish hospital admissions for health conditions linked to temperature rise due to climate change are projected to increase by 12.2 per cent during hotter weather in coming decades, according to research by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).

Climate change is already having direct and indirect impacts on Irish people’s health, the analysis published on Wednesday concludes.

News in Ireland

• Taoiseach promises to intervene to help Irish woman detained in Dubai for ‘attempted suicide’: The Department of Foreign Affairs is providing consular assistance to a Roscommon woman reportedly detained in Dubai for attempting to take her own life.
• RTÉ told it has no legal power to publish outside earnings of TV and radio presenters: RTÉ's plan to disclose the outside earnings of TV and radio presenters has hit a wall after station chiefs were told they had no legal power to publish the information.
• More than one in four parents in debt to cover back-to-school costs: Almost two-thirds of Irish parents say back-to-school costs are a financial burden with one in four going into debt to ensure their children will have what they need when schools reopen at the end of next month, according to a new survey.
• Passengers face more uncertainty as Aer Lingus pilots’ pay deal stalls: Aer Lingus passengers faced continued uncertainty on Tuesday as efforts to broker peace in the pilots’ pay row stalled while union leaders sought clarification of a deal meant to end the dispute, which has affected 82,000 people’s travel plans.
• Weather forecast: Wednesday will start cloudy and rather overcast start this morning with outbreaks of rain and drizzle across the northern half of the country. Some drier and perhaps sunnier spells across the south. Feeling a little cool too with highest temperatures of 13 to 19 in a northerly breeze. Tonight will see some clear spells in the south but becoming mostly overcast everywhere later in the night. Lowest temperatures of 8 to 12 degrees.
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Life & Style

• My kids are supporting England in the Euros and I need to get over it: It started at the end of June when Scotland were cruelly knocked out of the Euros. I was expressing my dismay at our neighbour’s defeat when one of my sons said simply: “England are our neighbours too and they’re still in. We’re going for them,” writes Mary Minihan.

Opinion

• Kathy Sheridan: It’s as if we’re seeing Kamala Harris for the first time
• French election: The far right has been held at bay, but for how long?

Business Opinion

• Nama was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to fix the property market, and we blew it: As the Government comes forward with yet another fantastical target for homebuilding and pretty much every relevant housing metric heads the wrong way, it is hard to believe that, 14 years ago, it had total and utter control of the housing market, writes John McManus.

Sports

• John O’Mahony spent his life raising bars and awaking the west: It was a very John O’Mahony answer. His Galway team had just lost a league final to Mayo in 2001. In the improvised media zone under the Cusack Stand, it was put to the losing manager that no county had ever won the All-Ireland after a league final defeat, writes Seán Moran.

World

• Greece set for economic ruin if tourism warnings stay unheeded: A report on the Greek tourism industry has spelt out in unequivocal terms that, unless fundamental changes are made to both the character of the tourism product and its infrastructure, the industry, which contributes approximately 30 per cent of Greek GDP, will collapse within 10 years.

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