After two weeks of negotiation with little progress, talks between the Government and trade unions on a new public sector pay deal will intensify hugely over the next 48 hours.

After two weeks of negotiation with little progress, talks between the Government and trade unions on a new public sector pay deal will intensify hugely over the next 48 hours.

The reduction in uptake of the cervical cancer vaccine may influence a reduction in uptake of other childhood vaccines, a HSE health chief warns.

Nurses have threatened to disrupt the health service if the Government fails to address demands for pay parity with other health professionals in upcoming talks.

The evidence, the damning evidence, that we have not properly planned for well-flagged developments is all around us. 

Nurses have become the latest public sector workers to ratchet up pressure on the Government with threats of industrial action if it imposes pay cuts.

One of the country’s top industrial relations mediators has been given less than a week to conclude talks with trade unions over pay cuts.

The country’s lowest-paid public servants will take industrial action if the Government enforces pay cuts, their union has warned.

The Government has offered to open a second round of talks with unions despite warning the public sector that it would enforce pay cuts.