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  • An air traffic controller in Dublin AirportThreatened air traffic control strike averted

    22:16 Air traffic controllers (ATCs) are to meet tomorrow to consider a Labour Court recommendation issued this evening aimed at ending a dispute which last week threatened to close down the State's main airports.Impact trade union which represents the approximately 100 ATCs at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports, said the recommendation contained "some positive elements" but that a meeting with the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) would be needed tomorrow to discuss a timescale for the recruitment staff. The development follows agreement yesterday on cost-cutting plan at Aer Lingus subject to a ballot of Siptu's 1,800 members at the airline.

  • Greens' concern over Ahern deepens

    21:11 The Government came under more pressure today over the Taoiseach's finances after Green Party finance spokesman Senator Dan Boyle criticised Mr Ahern's High Court challenge to the Mahon tribunal.

  • Man (19) held as Drimnagh killing treated as murder

    19:07 A man has been arrested following an assault in Dublin on Saturday evening which led to the death of a man in hospital today. Gardai renewed their appeal for public assistance after confirming that one of two men stabbed on Benbulbin Road, Drimnagh, at 6.50pm had died. The investigation was elevated to a murder inquiry today following the death of the man in his late 20s.

  • Labour Court finds HSE job freeze broke agreement

    16:46 The Labour Court has ruled that the Health Service Executive (HSE) breached the terms of the national agreement, Towards 2016, in the manner it introduced a recruitment freeze last year.

  • 'No Country' and Coen brothers sweep Oscars

    06:35 The 80th Academy Awards marked a triumph for Joel and Ethan Coen, who won three Oscars for No Country For Old Men. Daniel Day-Lewis was named best actor for There Will Be Blood, and Frames singer Glen Hansard and his partner Marketa Irglova won the best original song award for Falling Slowly, writes Michael Dwyer, Film Correspondent in Los Angeles.
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