Siptu has warned strikes which will ground thousands of passengers at the country’s three main airports in the run-up to the St Patrick’s Bank Holiday will, as of now, still go ahead in spite of an intervention in the pensions dispute by the Government, IBEC and ICTU.

The Government has launched its latest bid to avoid a crippling strike at the country's three biggest airport.

THE Irish Aviation Authority has failed in its attempts to avoid paying the terms of a transitional wage agreement and now faces a bill for a wage increase of €4.5 million.

Aer Lingus workers have today backed an alternative cost-cutting plan hammered out with the airline’s bosses.