SERVICES will be disrupted at more than 100 post offices today as workers protest over European Commission plans to open the postal market.

The country's 10,000 postal workers are to consider whether to accept a pay rise offer of 5.5% over four years.

The firefighters’ pay dispute in Britain was due to flare up today with the threat of fresh industrial action because of a breakdown in the deal which ended the last conflict.

An Post last night suspended 64 staff at the Dublin Mail Centre over their apparent failure to implement changes to sorting methods.