A row between management and unions which has led to the cancellation of services on the Irish Sea by Irish Ferries intensified today.

THE voluntary redundancy package offered to Irish Ferries’ workers could cost the company €20 million.

A senior member of the Democratic Unionists today denounced the appointment of former Assembly member Monica McWilliams as the chief human rights commissioner in Northern Ireland as crass.

The trade union movement was today mourning the death of one of its most familiar faces.

Unionist threats to topple Northern Ireland’s power-sharing regime will only fuel the blood-lust of sectarian killers, it was claimed tonight.

Trade unionists are meeting Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Mark Durkan today in a bid to find ways in which they can help tackle sectarianism.

Postal workers throughout Northern Ireland were back at work today after the withdrawal of loyalist death threats made following the murder of postman Daniel McColgan.