Fianna Fáil is calling on the Government to ease the planned €3.1bn in spending cuts and tax hikes in next year's Budget.

Lower-paid civil servants are holding their annual conference in Galway today.

The head of Ryanair has said the government should impose paycuts to the public sector.

The president of the Garda Representative Association has said that the Justice Minister is divorced from the reality of fighting crime.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter will delay hiring more gardaí following the rejection of Croke Park 2.

Trade unions warned today that there will be industrial action if the Government imposes further public-sector pay cuts.

The Tanaiste and Labour leader Eamon Gilmore is rejecting suggestions that the coalition will be damaged, after unions voted down the Croke Park 2 proposals.

The Sinn Féin Ard Fheis has heard a blistering personal attack on the Minister for Public Expenditure.

Everything will be back on the table if the Croke Park 2 proposals are not accepted by unions, Junior Finance Minister Brian Hayes has warned today.

The Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn has warned that frontline services will be hit if the Croke Park 2 proposals are rejected by unions.

The Teacher's Union of Ireland (TUI) has voted overwhelmingly in favour of an emergency motion instructing its Executive Committee to withdraw from Croke Park 1 - if Croke Park 2 is imposed on its members.

Secondary school teachers are today urging the government to rethink the proposed cuts under the extension of the Croke Park Agreement.

Our deficit is 15bn per year, every cent of which must be borrowed.

Monday, Feb 25, 2013, will be remembered as a sad day for economic Ireland.

Your editorial of Saturday, Jan 26, ‘Unions better stick to Croke Park agreement’, sounds like an unquestioning press release from government spin doctors.