The UK’s leading canned fish brand, John West, was set to fall into Thai hands today following a €680m deal.

WORKERS are desperately looking to the trade union movement to sort out the housing crisis, a SIPTU official claimed yesterday.

Two of the country's largest trade unions are to announce the formation of a strategic alliance later today.

An alliance of unions today has resulted in nearly a quarter of a million workers being represented under the one umbrella group.