The growing threat of legal action and multimillion-euro payouts are putting the future of the national breast screening programme at risk, it has been claimed.

Hopes are high Davy Fitzgerald will be fit enough to take some if not all managerial duties for Clare in tomorrow’s All-Ireland quarter-final in Semple Stadium.

Scores of nurses are to stage a series of hour-long stoppages in Dublin and Tipperary today as they step up their campaign for better pay and working conditions.