SOME of the country’s top chefs will serve up their signature dishes on the banks of the Lee next month as the southern capital celebrates its renowned food culture.

IN your editorial about water shortages (July 26) you raise percipient points to do with three linked looming problems: the need to provide additional water, energy independence and a stimulus to the economy.

Oil giant Shell announced today that it is to axe 180 jobs in its North Sea operations.

IRISH private sector wages are the lowest of any of the EU’s 10 wealthiest countries, a trade union claimed last night.

UNITE trade union is to invest millions of euro in recruiting workers in non-union and anti-union industries in a move that could see it challenging SIPTU for dominance in the private sector.

Trade union leaders and Bank of Ireland bosses have hammered out a deal to end a lengthy industrial row that saw workers strike, it was confirmed today.

THE union representing thousands of financial services workers in Ireland has dismissed the idea of Sunday trading, which has been proposed by Halifax.

Maintenance workers in the health service in the North are to go on strike after they accused Stormont officials of reneging on paying money they were entitled to under a pay deal.

A full audit should be carried out of the land and assets owned by the North’s new government owned water company, Stormont Assembly members will be urged today.

Protesters demanding union recognition greeted delegates at Standard Life’s first annual general meeting as a public company today.

AN expected recommendation on the AIB staff pension scheme by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) mirrors a series of deals negotiated over the last six months by the Amicus section of the recently merged Unite trade union, the body claimed yesterday.

INDUSTRIAL action has been confirmed at the British Council in Dublin.

140 jobs are to be lost in north county Dublin.

The VHI is due to meet Minister for Health Mary Harney today to discuss her contentious plan to reduce risk equalisation payments by 20%.

ESB workers are today expected to signal if they are going to force nationwide power blackouts ahead of the General Election over their ongoing dispute with the Government.

Staff at Royal Bank of Scotland have been told they face disciplinary action if they do not open an account with their employer.

Two of the country's main trade unions, Amicus and the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union (AT&GWU), are to join forces, it emerged this afternoon.

Another trade union at Aer Lingus has voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action over the airline's plans to cut costs.

One of the country's biggest trade unions has called on the Government to do more to encourage people to invest in their pension.

PILOTS and cabin crew at Aer Lingus are not going to join their SIPTU-represented colleagues in industrial action — yet.

Consumer groups in the UK today welcomed the first British Gas domestic price cuts in seven years and called on other energy firms to follow suit.

The Labour Court has ordered Bank of Ireland (BoI) to allow all staff members to join its defined-benefit pension scheme.

A SURVEY of 2,000 workers in the financial sector has found that four out of five would be willing to take industrial action to protect their long term pension security.

Four out of five financial workers are willing to take industrial action to protect their long-term pension security, research revealed today.

The Amicus trade union has said it will strongly oppose any plans to break up the VHI in the wake of yesterday's decision by BUPA to exit the Irish market.

The Labour Court is due to hear further submissions today in relation to the pensions dispute at Bank of Ireland.

AMICUS has reached agreement in pension negotiation with Irish Life and Permanent TSB. The outline agreement was reached at a meeting yesterday between the bank and union officials.

AMICUS has agreed to a Labour Court hearing of its pension dispute with Bank of Ireland.

The Dublin stock exchange saw its index earn a modest rise as moves continued in the Ryanair/Aer Lingus saga.

There has been a breakthrough in the pensions dispute between Bank of Ireland and one of its unions.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares is up 31.42 points this morning to 8921.49.

Officials from the Amicus trade union are due at the Labour Relations Commission this morning.

AMICUS yesterday reached agreement on behalf of its members at Allianz Ireland to the insurance company’s pension arrangements.

The Amicus trade union has reached an agreement with insurance company Allianz over new pension arrangements for staff.

Up to 500 Bank of Ireland workers will strike today as the row over pensions escalates.

A ONE-DAY strike by 500 Bank of Ireland staff is scheduled to commence this morning after last-ditch talks at the Labour Relations Commission failed to resolve a row over pensions.

Bank of Ireland has this evening expressed its dismay at the upcoming industrial action by the Amicus union.

Tonight's talks aimed at averting a strike by hundreds of Bank of Ireland workers have failed.

The Labour Relations Commission is due to oversee talks today aimed at averting strike action by a number of Bank of Ireland staff.

The Labour Court is due to begin hearings today into the dispute over the introduction of a new pension scheme at Bank of Ireland.

Planned strike action by Amicus union members at Bank of Ireland is completely unwarranted, management claimed tonight.

Bank of Ireland has condemned the announcement by Amicus that they are considering industrial action following a vote amongst their 400 members in the bank.

Hundreds of Bank of Ireland staff are to take strike action in the next few weeks as part of a dispute over a new pension scheme.