Efforts to avoid nurses' strike end without resolution

Talks between nursing unions and the HSE, in a bid to avert strike action by nurses, have ended with an agreement to meet again on Monday.

Efforts to avert a strike by the country’s nurses have ended without a resolution.

Talks took place earlier between The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the Psychiatric Nurses Association and the HSE, to try and reach agreement on issues surrounding pay and conditions.