A Fathers4Justice campaign calling for the recognition and protection of the rights of the father in relation to the unborn child is now likely to go ahead in Cork, it emerged tonight. 

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A total of 3,417 employee working days were lost due to industrial disputes — the vast majority down to May’s Bus Eireann strike — in the second quarter of the year.

A Cork teacher is behind a very popular garden festival, writes Colette Sheridan.

There has been a potential breakthrough in the ongoing dispute at Bus Éireann this afternoon.

Bus Éireann have announced that they are to unilaterally implement changes to staff terms and conditions.

Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe was tonight accused of a humiliating u-turn after ordering a nationwide school closure only to reverse it on the first day of the shutdown.

Unions and management at Bus Eireann are holding more talks at the Labour Relations Commission today in an effort to resolve the dispute over cost-cutting plans at the company.

Two separate union disputes look further away from agreement this evening.

Calls were made tonight for an emergency contingency plan after thousands of commuters were left stranded when a fright train derailed in north Co Dublin.

Trade union Siptu today called on the Government to end its controversial decentralisation plans for semi-state bodies.

The CIE group has warned all its contractors and subcontractors to sign a new declaration pledging to pay employees no less than the minimum wage.

Labour inspectors today launched a probe into claims 19 South African workers were being paid only €2.80 an hour to fit seat-belts on Bus Eireann coaches.

Plans by Bus Eireann to spend €16m euro on a fleet of luxury coaches with no wheelchair access were today branded incredible.

FAMILIES affected by the Navan school bus tragedy fear the findings of the inquiry into the accident may not be known for several years after the Director Public Prosecutions asked for publication to be delayed until all possibility of criminal trials have passed.

The garda investigation into May’s bus crash near Navan, which killed five schoolgirls, is complete and has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, it emerged tonight.

The current system for testing anti-lock brakes on buses needs to be re-examined in the wake of the Navan Bus crash, it was claimed tonight.

Bus Eireann's report into the crash that killed five schoolgirls in Co Meath last May has reportedly been delayed due to the actions of Meath County Council.

CRIMINAL charges may yet arise from a freak bus accident in Waterford last year that caused 19 people to be treated in hospital after a bus mounted a packed pavement on the city’s quayside.

Bus Eireann has been found to have indirectly discriminated against an employee, who has consequently been awarded €3,000.

BUS EIREANN has been ordered to accept a job application from one of its retired drivers after the Equality Tribunal found its policy of not re-employing staff was ageist.

THE city-centre pavement in Waterford was packed with shoppers and elderly passengers when the number 5 bus mounted the pavement shortly after 11am.

CORK city will be served with a new coach link to Dublin airport before the end of the month, after Aircoach announced plans yesterday to extend its airport shuttle service outside Dublin city.

Employees at the Central Bank have won a €2,032 bonus for working during the changeover to the common European currency on New Year’s day last.

Bus Eireann says allegations some of their employees sought backhanders for the rewarding of contracts are entirely without foundation.

Government plans for public transport should allow consumers maximum choice, according to Isolde Goggin, Director of Regulated Markets Division at the Competition Authority.

Roads across the nation are set for a night of gridlock as the big return home continues following the holiday weekend.

Mayo Fine Gael TD Jim Higgins wants Education Minister Michael Woods to provide a number of school buses for independent tests on safety and road worthiness.