The scale of the Pfizer jobs cuts sent shock waves around the world as 6,000 jobs were axed with the firm aiming to restructure its global network.

The Government has come in for criticism in the Dáil this morning due to the latest development at the SR Technics plant in Dublin.

Workers at the troubled SR Technics plant are meeting today to hammer out a way forward for the campaign to save their jobs.

Workers from the SR Technics plant at Dublin Airport are holding a protest outside the Swiss Embassy in Dublin today.

Devastated workers milled around outside the sprawling SR Technics plant today, desperately trying to come to terms with the shocking news that 1,135 staff were being laid off.