Fines of up to €650,000 will be imposed on hospitals that breach rules limiting the hours a junior doctor can work under proposals designed to end a long- standing row over excessive working hours.

Junior doctors warn they will up the stakes and strike for two days as the war of words between the HSE and the Irish Medical Organisation over working hours continues.

More than 3,000 junior doctors have gone on strike — with the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) warning of more industrial action.

Junior doctors have warned that tomorrow’s one-day strike at 51 hospitals may not be the last.

Junior doctors have warned that if tomorrow's strike fails to get them what they want, they will do it again next week.

Junior doctors will not call off tomorrow’s strike action unless the HSE details how it will “sanction” hospitals which force medics to work excessively long hours.

The Irish Medical Organisation says it is resigned to the Junior Doctors strike going ahead next Tuesday.

The HSE is preparing to defer thousands of hospital appointments and hundreds of planned operations in advance of Tuesday’s day of action by non-consultant hospital doctors.

Junior doctors have said the HSE was not willing to commit to concrete proposals to avert strike action.

Junior doctors have resumed plans for strike action likely to cause widespread disruption in public hospitals after the breakdown of talks with employers over excessive working hours.

Junior doctors are to go on strike next week.

The Irish Medical Organisation says industrial action by junior doctors now looks to be "inevitable".

The Labour Relations Commission (LRC) is to chair talks today aimed at averting a junior doctors' strike later this month.

Strike-threatening doctors have moved to ease fears over patient safety and offered to staff hospitals during a planned walk-out with bank holiday or weekend level rosters.

The Irish Medical Organisation will today discuss a strike action plan after junior doctors voted to down tools over excessive working hours.

Patients are set to be thrown into the middle of a nationwide industrial relations row after hospital doctors voted for strike action over their “dangerous” working hours.

Doctors have voted to strike over what they have branded dangerous working hours.

Junior doctors are a step closer to strike action this morning after talks between the IMO and the HSE failed to reach an agreement.

Junior doctors have warned the HSE they will be forced to take strike action from as soon as Sept 17 unless drastic steps are made to reduce their excessive working hours.

The union representing junior doctors is warning that patient care could suffer because of lengthy shifts.

A doctors’ trade union is to meet the Health Service Executive (HSE) next week to plan for emergency cover in the event of work stoppages in protest over junior doctors’ working hours.

The trade union representing Ireland's junior doctors said it was disappointed with the outcome of a meeting with the HSE to discuss working hours.

A potential junior doctors’ strike that could cripple the hospital system is looming as a direct result of the excessive and “dangerous” length of shifts the medics are forced to work.

The Irish Medical Organisation has said junior doctors are at crisis point - working unsafe hours in hospitals.

Non-consultant hospital doctors have begun a national campaign that could include taking industrial action to force a reduction in their “dangerously long” working hours.

Junior doctors are threatening to strike if the Government doesn't move to reduce their working hours.

Hospital doctors are considering industrial action over the HSE’s failure to introduce a maximum limit of 24 hours for on-call periods.