More than 70,000 passengers face travel chaos as striking bus drivers ground the Bus Eireann fleet for a second day.

More than 100,000 bus passengers face travel disruption today as Bus Éireann drivers begin a second day of strike action that brought at least 95% of services to a standstill yesterday.

Bus Éireann has this morning confirmed the vast majority of services around the country are not operating due to industrial action.

Commuters face travel disruption from the weekend after Bus Éireann workers voted for strike action.

Strikes by London Underground workers could be escalated in the New Year, with two- or three-day walkouts considered, union leaders warned today.

Union leaders hit out today after workers at the country’s biggest travel agency were offered basic redundancy pay-offs.

Protesting workers staging a sit-in at a Thomas Cook branch risked jail tonight by rejecting a final High Court order to leave.

Protesting workers staging a sit-in at a Thomas Cook branch in Dublin vowed to continue their action for a third day today despite a High Court ruling ordering them to leave.

Protesting Thomas Cook staff in Dublin have been served with a High Court order asking that they leave the premises, it was revealed tonight.

A sit-in by disgruntled Thomas Cook staff has spread to a second store in Dublin, a union leader said today.