Talks are taking place between nursing unions and the Government this evening at the Workplace Relations Commission.

Nurses working in the acute mental health unit (AMHU) at Cork University Hospital (CUH) are considering industrial action in protest at being asked to triage patients who present out-of-hours.

Dr Anthony Leddin finds the devil is in the detail — or rather the lack of it — in the Labour Court’s proposed nursing agreement, which is to be voted on this month.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association has suspended next week's strike action.

500 ambulance personnel are picketing at locations across the country today in a dispute over union recognition.

Around 500 ambulance service personnel who are members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association will go on strike tomorrow as part of an ongoing dispute over trade union representation rights.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is recommending that its members accept a pay deal aimed at preventing further strikes.

Teaching unions will stake their claim for more money for members, especially new entrants, if it emerges that nurses get more pay.

The Irish Nurses & Midwives Organisation (INMO) is to call on its members to accept the Labour Court's recommendations subject to negotiations.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is meeting this afternoon to discuss the recommendations issued by the Labour Court, following the suspension of strike action.

It will take months to reschedule some of the thousands of hospital appointment cancelled because of the nurses’ strike, it has emerged.

Union ‘working flat out’ to explain pay offer amid rising anger

The pay deal between the Government and nurses to end the nationwide hospital strike action will cost up to €50m over the next two years.

A Meath nurse has written a hugely emotive post on why she left general nursing to become a flight medic, saying she had to train her bladder to go seven hours without visiting a toilet because she never had time on duty.

Latest: The INMO leadership will meet tomorrow to decide when its members will vote on a pay deal for nurses.

Further disruption to tens of thousands of patients has been averted — for now — after the nursing unions agreed to call off strikes and put a Labour Court recommendation on pay and staffing to its members for a ballot.

Marathon talks continue at the Labour Court tonight, aimed at ending the nurses dispute with the Government over pay and working conditions.

Talks will get underway again at the Labour Court this morning in an attempt to find a breakthrough in the nurses dispute.

Talks between the Psychiatric Nurses Association(PNA) and HSE bosses have ended for the night.

A national rally is taking place today as INMO nurses prepare to enter a third week of strike action for better pay.

A day of discussions between unions, the HSE and government officials at the Labour Court has concluded this evening.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) has announced it will hold three additional days of strike action in the coming weeks.

The Independent Alliance has sought a meeting with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on the cost escalations at the Children's Hospital and the ongoing nurses' strike.

With up to a quarter of a million people potentially affected by the nurses' dispute, someone is “going to fall through the cracks”, patient advocate, Stephen McMahon has warned.

The Labour Court is to examine the nurses strike this morning, in an effort to avert widespread disruption to the health service next week.

A Cork GP has told of how she had to get a private scan for her father after two public scans were cancelled last week. He was subsequently diagnosed with lung cancer.

It is expected that the Labour Court will review the nurses' strike tomorrow in an effort to avert widespread disruption to the health service next week.

"What struck me were the chants that I heard (from the picket lines) proclaiming the need for safe staffing, while the key staff essential for running the services in the building behind them are outside on the picket line," said Minister Harris.

The Government has been called on to "do the right thing" and engage with striking nurses without preconditions.

Brid Shine, a bereavement midwife at the Coombe Hospital, says the strike is about much more than pay.

Nurses and midwives in Cork say they are prepared to escalate their action until the government is willing to talk about pay and conditions.

The Government has been told to "do the right thing" and engage without preconditions with striking nurses.

More than 25,000 medical appointments have been cancelled today, as nurses take to the picket lines for a third day.

The failure of the Labour Court to make any formal intervention in the nurses’ dispute with the Government to prevent them taking strike action in the first place is worrying, particularly in light of the overtime ban by psychiatric nurses and yesterday’s protest by 500 general practitioners.

The HSE says that talks are ongoing with the INMO to explore if arrangements can be made to allow for major surgeries, including cancer procedures, during tomorrow's nurses' strike.

The impact on tens of thousands of patients of escalating unrest in the health service continues today with members of the public asked not to use out of hours GP services as hundreds of family doctors gather in Dublin for a protest.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been accused of disrespecting nurses and patients by issuing “cynical” press releases instead of directly engaging with unions.

Sean O’Riordan says nurses are right to make their voices heard after enduring substandard wages and conditions for far too long.

Some nurses would get pay increases of 40% next year if the government gave in to their demands.

The Taoiseach has been accused of disrespecting nurses and patients by issuing "cynical" press releases instead of directly engaging with unions.

The ratcheting up of pressure on the Health Minister Simon Harris continues as nurses return in force to the picket line today and criticism of the runaway costs of the new children’s hospital continues.

Health Minister Simon Harris has said revised terms inquiring into the spiralling costs for the National Children’s Hospital will include any recommendations on how to reduce the final bill.

INMO branch chief says strike ‘shows things haven’t changed much’ since 1999 dispute, writes Tia Clarke.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has accused the Government of a “cynical” attempt to break their strike action after two ministers urged nurses to meet for fresh talks — on any issue except pay.