More than 3,000 non-consultant hospital doctors will stage a day of action this morning following a long-running dispute with the HSE over working hours.

Junior doctors have warned that tomorrow’s one-day strike at 51 hospitals may not be the last.

The head of the HSE has said that the planned strike by junior doctors tomorrow is now "inevitable".

Junior doctors have warned that if tomorrow's strike fails to get them what they want, they will do it again next week.

The Health Minister has said that the only people who will suffer if junior doctors strike is the patients.

Junior doctors are to go on strike next week.

Planned strike action by junior doctors which was due to take place next Wednesday has been postponed, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has announced.

Junior doctors and the HSE are to hold talks at the Labour Relations Commission this morning in an effort to avert a strike planned for next Wednesday.

The Labour Relations Commission (LRC) is to chair talks today aimed at averting a junior doctors' strike later this month.

The Irish Medical Organisation says a strike by junior doctors can be avoided if the HSE is willing to negotiate over working hours.

The HSE has been told it should start making arrangements for junior doctors to go on strike.

Hospital consultants are resuming talks with the Health Service Executive today over contentious new contracts.

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association has denied the Government’s accusation that it is holding patients to ransom by engaging in industrial action.

Patients across Ireland found their surgeries cancelled today as hospital consultants stepped up industrial action by halting work on a scheme to cut waiting lists.

Hospital consultants are due to escalate their industrial action today by refusing to co-operate with the National Treatment Purchase Fund.

The Minister for Health has urged hospital consultants to defer their planned industrial action.

Consultants vowed to step up their campaign of protest against the introduction of a new form of medical insurance today, after a ballot of union members overwhelmingly supported industrial action in hospitals across Ireland.

Health Minister Micheál Martin has accused hospital consultants of undermining efforts to reach an agreement on a new scheme to insure them against compensation claims.

Consultants taking part in an escalating campaign of protest against a new form of medical insurance today warned the Government it must act now to prevent strike action at hospitals across Ireland.

The Taoiseach has criticised the Irish Hospital Consultant Association's campaign of action which begins today, saying: “For people to be threatening to withdraw service from patients over insurance issues is not acceptable.”

Hospital consultants are due to begin a campaign of action today to express their opposition to a new insurance scheme being introduced by Health Minister Micheál Martin.

The Minister for Health has dismissed the concerns of hospital consultants over their new insurance scheme launched today.

There is optimism this evening that there may be some progress in talks aimed at ending the public health doctors strike this evening.

The Irish Medical Organisation and the Health Service Employers Agency are due to resume talks at the Labour Relations Commission today in an effort to resolve the eight-week-old public health doctors' strike.

Talks between health service employers and striking public health doctors have broken up for the weekend without agreement.

The Irish Medical Organisation is due to meet the Health Service Employers Agency today in an effort to resolve an eight-week-old strike by Ireland's 300 public health doctors.

Health Minister Micheál Martin has reiterated his appeal to public health doctors to end their strike, which entered its second week this week.

The Labour Party has called on Health Minister Micheal Martin to intervene in the dispute between public health doctors and health service employers.

The country's 270 public health doctors are beginning an all out strike this morning.

The health service employers agency has condemned the IMO’s decision not to attend Labour Court talks in the Junior Doctors' dispute on Thursday.

The Irish Medical Organisation and the Health Service Employers Agency are due to resume talks on the junior doctors’ dispute at the Labour Relations Commission today.

Junior doctors have voted by 97% in favour of industrial action, according to the results of an Irish Medical Organisation nationwide ballot.

Talks on the junior doctors’ dispute at the Labour Relations Commission have adjourned for today.

Talks on the junior doctors' dispute at Waterford have been suspended until Friday.

Talks on the junior doctors dispute at Waterford have begun at the labour relation’s commission.

The Irish Medical Organisation has agreed to suspend the junior doctors’ strike action at hospitals in Waterford and Tullamore until September 16.

The South Eastern Health board has confirmed that Junior doctors in Waterford have suspended Industrial action until next Tuesday.

Doctors in Portlaoise General hospital have held protests this lunch time in support of striking colleagues in Tullamore and Waterford.

The Irish Medical Organisation has welcomed calls from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for both sides in the junior doctors' dispute to return to talks at the Labour Relations Commission.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is calling for both sides in the Junior doctors dispute to engage in talks immediately.

Health Minister Michael Martin tonight appealed for an end to industrial action that has halted operations at two hospital and could spread nationwide.

Dr Sean McCarthy, a member of the South Eastern Health Board, has claimed management at Waterford Regional Hospital is solely responsible for the ongoing junior doctors’ dispute in the facility.

Junior doctors are due to resume their strike action at hospitals in Waterford and Tullamore later today.

Industrial strife in the health service is escalating with nurses at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin voting for possible strike action.