Éamon Bowen eliminated hot favourite Gary Daly from the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig and ended his interest in the Hurley’s of Midleton King of the Roads.

This week social media - driven by ordinary people - once again wielded its power and achieved something extraordinary in the process.

The Government has been told to re-hire a former staff member of the Department of Employment — after it failed to correctly interpret its own employment laws.

The Labour Court has recommended hospital consultants forego up to €50,000 of overtime pay they are owed by the State.

2008 Munster Club champions Dromcollogher-Broadford progressed to the Limerick SFC semi-finals after beating Galbally 2-13 to 1-11 in Saturday’s quarter-final in Bruff.

Despite trailing 1-4 to 0-5 at the break, Fr Casey’s booked the first place in the Limerick SFC semi-finals with a 2-11 to 2-8 win over St Kieran’s at Newcastlewest on Saturday on the back of second-half goals from Pádraig McEnery and Robert Browne.

St Fachtna’s, Skibbereen 0-13 Coláiste na Sceilge 0-9

CHAMPIONS Monaleen remain on track to defend their title.

CHAMPIONS Dromcollogher-Broadford will face Monaleen in the Limerick SFC semi-final after the latter shocked last season’s finalists Fr Caseys (0-11 to 0-9) in Kilmallock yesterday.

AS if Ivor Callely would fear losing the Fianna Fáil whip.

SIPTU vice-president Brendan Hayes has been named deputy chairman of the Labour Court just three months after he was forced to issue a circular to the union’s 200,000 members denying he had been offered the €150,000 per-year post.

The HSE has started the rollout of a new advanced paramedic service in west Cork.

THE vice-president of the country’s largest trade union has written to his members to explain that he has not been offered or sought a lucrative €150,000 position in the Labour Court.

Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan has asked the Irish Independent newspaper to correct a story published this morning which she says is inaccurate.

Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan is reportedly planning to appoint SIPTU's vice-president to a lucrative state job without any interview process.

TOP earners will not be hit with higher taxes under the new tax recommendations, the vice-president of SIPTU has warned.

The SIPTU representative who sat on the Commission for Taxation has described the body's proposals on tax reform as "unfair".

COMPLAINTS against pharmacists were up from 29 to 35 last year, with 10 of those alleging errors with the dispensing of drugs.

THE sad news of an assault on medical staff at a psychiatric day hospital in Limerick confirms fears staff have been expressing for many years that such an event was likely.

NURSES rightly feel betrayed for trusting their leadership to defer industrial action last summer in the vague hope that the benchmarking process would recommend in their favour.

SIPTU, which represents 67,000 public sector workers, claimed the benchmarking report confirmed “a trend in the Irish economy where a relentless war has been waged on workers’ wages and conditions”.

THE number of pharmacists and pharmacies in Ireland is at an all-time high, figures show.

IRELAND’S new pharmacy regulator has accused both the Government and Health Service Executive of dragging their heels in meeting patients’ needs.

NOW that Aer Lingus has decided to end its Shannon/Heathrow service, will the anti-war movement which has been protesting about US troop stopovers lend its support to the workers whose livelihoods are currently under serious threat?

SIPTU is urging all parties involved in the nurses' dispute to re-enter negotiations.

Informal contacts between nursing unions and the Government’s top industrial relations trouble-shooters were taking place today to avert planned escalation of strike action.

THE country’s largest union SIPTU has pledged the support of its members for a possible strike by two other unions in the country’s hospitals.

IRELAND has the highest rate of people at risk of poverty in retirement of any of the EU states — and the Government can expect a high level of public disquiet as that reality becomes more and more apparent over the coming years.

IMPLEMENTATION of the latest social partnership agreement could hinge on two meetings being held today by the country’s largest trade union, SIPTU.

HOME helpers took to the streets of Dublin yesterday in protest against their conditions of employment.

Up to 200 men and women took to the streets of Dublin today in protest against the conditions of employment for home helps.

A FIRST breakthrough between management at Irish Ferries and unions is expected to be announced later today, although the future of Social Partnership remains strained over the dispute.

AS the proportion of workers in trade unions continues to fall, unions were told they would have to become more relevant to workers’ needs if they are to be able to represent them in the future.

Cork 2-9 Limerick 0-13

AT 7.40pm on Monday, June 30, I observed a small tornado moving rapidly from south to north during a severe rain and hail storm over Huntsfield, Dooradoyle, Limerick.

Almost 400 workers at Irish branches of Insurance firm, Royal Liver, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action to begin next month.