Barristers to strike over failure to reverse payment cuts

Sara Phelan. chair of the Council of The Bar of Ireland and Seán Guerin, chair of the Criminal State Bar Committee outside the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin last October. 

Criminal barristers across the country are to strike on Tuesday over failure by the Government to reverse cuts made to their fees after the 2008 financial crash.

It is the first of three days of strike action for barristers this month over pay.