SOCIAL networking giant Facebook announced plans to double its Irish operations yesterday at the official opening of its European headquarters in Dublin.

Social networking site Facebook is to more than double the size of its Dublin operations, it was announced today.

TEACHING staff at the Waterford Institute of Technology have voted in favour of a one-day strike in the ongoing dispute over management plans to downgrade its music school.

AS Leaving Certificate students await their exam results tomorrow, lecturers at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) are threatening strike action and disruption to the new college term.