Up to 35 staff who work for a speed-camera operator have voted to go on strike.

One always suspected a day like yesterday would come.

A group of Labour councillors have called on party colleagues to focus on core issues rather than a possible leadership challenge to Brendan Howlin.

Siptu officials have defended the trade union’s decision to allow members supporting former union president Jack O’Connor’s bid to become a Labour TD to use its headquarters for planning purposes, despite opposition from union members who support other parties.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin says residents of the north inner city are too afraid to provide information on gangland feuds.

Plans for a new maternity hospital are back on track after the board of Holles Street overwhelmingly voted in favour of re-endorsing the deal struck last November that paved the way for its transfer to the campus of St Vincent’s University Hospital at Elm Park.

Health Minister Simon Harris is seeking a one-month national maternity hospital reprieve in a bid to rescue the crisis-hit project from the brink of collapse.

Update 11pm: Junior Minister John Halligan has defended President Michael D Higgins over his praise for the regime of Fidel Castro.

Works by a number of Irish writers have been longlisted for the world’s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.

You know the drill. The music cranks up, you shake off the rust from your joints and you climb to your feet.

Update 4.30pm: Dublin City Council have issued a statement in honour of their recently deceased colleague Trevor O'Neill.

Local representatives have called for a meeting between Dublin City Council and Irish Rail to finally close off a ‘short cut’ at which a father and son died at the weekend.

Update 1.14pm: Calls are being made for increased safety measures at a Dublin railway track following the death of a three-year-old and his father yesterday.

Gardaí are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of the bodies of a man and a young boy in a stream near Dublin’s Royal Canal.

Trade union Siptu said it hopes to save some of the 200 jobs that Brinks Ireland said will go in the Republic, but only if the contracts are transferred to rival operators.

DUBLIN Central is a fascinating contest.

MORE than 100 jobs are to be slashed in Dublin and Tipperary after food manufacturer Premier Foods announced the closure of three of its sites.

Up to 470 jobs are at risk following a row over running costs between a frozen food supplier and Dunnes Stores, it has emerged.

The number of people claiming unemployment benefit rose slightly in February, according to the Central Statistics Office.

EXHIBITIONISTS strutted their stuff yesterday as they warmed up for the first “human zoo”.

SUPERMARKET giant Tesco has rejected claims the supermarket chain is exploiting Polish workers at its main distribution centre in Dublin.

SIPTU said the possible sale of Irish Biscuits by French parent Groupe Danone would have “devastating” consequences for the Tallaght plant’s workers and their families.

SIPTU's Dublin Food Branch Official, Brendan Carr has said Tánaiste Mary Harney should put in place greater support mechanisms for indigenous industries - especially in the more traditional sectors of the economy.

SIPTU has vowed to do everything it can to save the jobs of the 180 employs at the HB factory in Rathfarnam, Dublin.

HOSPITAL patients in the west are facing major disruption from next Monday, with nurses and ward clerks mounting industrial action in a row over pay and planned job losses.

GROCERY giant Superquinn has issued protective notice to its 5,300 staff nationwide after a strike by 120 butchers in its Dublin stores worsened yesterday.