1,500 to strike at Bord na Móna

Almost 1,500 staff at Bord na Móna are to hold a one-day all-out strike at the plant next Tuesday over pay demands.

The action comes after almost two thirds of the staff, members of Unite, Siptu, and the Technical Electrical and Engineering Unions, rejected a deal hammered out between their union representatives and the company.

In what has become a long-running dispute, the workers have been demanding a 3.5% pay increase in line with the first phase of the Towards 2016 national wage agreement.