Plans to run all-night Tube services in London will run up losses of over £100 million before breaking even, a union has claimed.

Minister for Transport Tourism and Sport, Paschal Donohoe TD, condemned the threatened industrial action at Irish Rail.

Siptu, the largest driver union at Irish Rail, has rejected an amended Labour Court recommendation on cost savings at the company and said it will no longer negotiate with management if pay reductions remain on the table.

The British capital could face travel disruption for more than a week when an eight-day strike by London Underground power workers gets under way tonight.

Iarnród Éireann says it regrets the decision of the NBRU to reject a Labour Court recommendation on cost reduction at the company.

Iarnród Éireann’s plan to cut €4.7m from its staff pay bill has been dealt a severe blow after one of the driver unions, Siptu, rejected a Labour Court recommendation on the plan and warned of strikes if the cuts are implemented.

Members of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) at Irish Rail have voted to accept the Labour Court recommendations on a cost saving plan.

Fulham’s Premier League home clash with Liverpool will go ahead as planned on Wednesday night after unions suspended a strike on the London Underground.

A planned 48-hour strike by London Underground workers in a row over ticket office closures has been called off after a last-minute deal was agreed.

Bus Éireann said it hopes to run as many services as possible after workers lifted a strike for 48 hours.

There has been an escalation of the Bus Eireann workers' dispute in Cork.

A second day of strikes over pay cuts by Bus Eireann workers has put the vast majority of services off the road.

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

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

Passengers are bracing themselves for travel chaos when Bus Éireann drivers go on strike tomorrow.

Talks aimed at averting a strike at Bus Eireann are continuing at the Labour Relations Commission in Dublin.

SIPTU has said strike action will go ahead as planned if there is no positive outcome from talks with Bus Éireann management over planned cutbacks.

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

A 24-HOUR strike on London’s underground rail network will go ahead on Monday after talks over planned job cuts broke down, heralding the fourth walkout since September.

Tube travellers had to be led along tracks through an underground tunnel for the second day in a row today because of fresh disruption to services.

Hundreds of London Underground passengers had to walk along the track today after trains were stuck in tunnels because of a power failure.

Talks aimed at averting a series of strikes by London Underground workers from next week have broken down and the industrial action will go ahead as planned, union leaders said today.

Eurostar workers are to strike this Friday and Saturday after talks broke down.

Last ditch talks will be held today in a bid to avert a 48-hour strike by drivers and on-board staff on Eurostar trains.

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

UP to 60 people are to lose their jobs at an aircraft maintenance firm Aviance after attempts to transfer the workers to a new contract holder failed.

The dispute at Thomas Cook is over after the British company's Dublin workers accepted a revised redundancy offer from management today.

A proposal to end the row between management and staff at Thomas Cook's Dublin operations is due to be put to workers today.

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

Workers at Thomas Cook are gearing up for a rally at its Grafton St store later this morning as their lock-in protest enters its fourth day.

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.

Workers at Thomas Cook in Dublin are vowing to continue their sit-in protest and said they won't leave the store until the company agrees to negotiate a fairer redundancy deal.

THREE transport unions were last night poised to call a series of 24-hour strikes that could cripple services on the London Underground.

Staff at hundreds of travel agents could lose their jobs following the creation of a massive £12bn (€17.6bn) UK holiday company.

Bus Eireann workers are due to mount a demonstration in Dublin today in protest at the planned decentralisation of their jobs.