Tuesday's Evening Round-up: Hospital staff strike; €5bn no-deal Brexit; Eir's Broadband plan

So that’s Tuesday nearly wrapped up. Here are some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

TO INFORM

Ireland: Around 10,000 hospital staff will take to the picket lines from 8am in the morning for 24 hours.

Ireland: A 'no deal' Brexit would turn next year's Budget surplus of €1.2bn into a near €5bn deficit, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has confirmed.

Ireland: Eir is “certain” it could roll out a national broadband plan for Ireland for under €1bn, a committee has heard.

Ireland: Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council have said that the orange water at Sandycove Beach today is a naturally occurring micro-alga.

World: Boris Johnson has challenged Jeremy Hunt – his rival for the Tory leadership – to commit to taking Britain out of the EU by the end of October.

Sport: Ireland has secured at least two medals at the European Games. Boxers Regan Buckley and Michael Nevin won in their quarter-finals on two 4-1 split decisions over Spain’s Martin Molina Salvador and Turkey’s Serhat Guler respectively in Minsk earlier.

Business: Kerry Foods is planning to close its factory in the UK town of Burton-on-Trent - a move that will lead to 900 job losses.

TO ENGAGE

Views: Today, I will publish the Government’s summer economic statement, setting out the economic context and budgetary strategy that will frame Budget 2020, which I will present to Dáil Éireann on October 8, writes Paschal Donohoe

Views: In American politics, the Republican Party's commitment to the fossil-fuel industry means that it will continue to deny climate science and favour policies that exacerbate global warming. But the Democratic Party, too, has long been in thrall to a form of climate-change denialism.

TO ENTERTAIN

Showbiz: Tensions run high in the Love Island villa as contestants are divided over the departure of Yewande Biala.

Lifestyle: It’s easy to never give the electrics a second thought, but potentially dangerous warning signs should never be ignored.

MOST READ SO FAR TODAY

Most Read: Gardaí overseeing the search for a missing man in Cork have recovered the body of a man from the Owenabue river.