Emmet Malone

More than 2,000 frontline staff at the National Ambulance Service are to be balloted on industrial action after renewed efforts to address a long-running dispute over pay and conditions failed to produce a deal. The staff, mostly emergency medical technic... See more

Sandra Luz has a long list of symptoms she continues to suffer from six years after contracting Covid-19 while working on the frontline of the pandemic as a support worker in a Dublin residential care centre. Joint pain, fatigue, skin sensitivity, fatigue... See more

Retired workers from An Post and Eir are to protest at the Dáil at lunchtime on Tuesday as they seek to have increases to their pensions agreed last year approved by the Government. About 20,000 pensioners are affected, including 7,000 from An Post who ar... See more

A finding against the Irish Government for not paying members of the Defence Forces premiums for public holidays and overtime has been described as “highly embarrassing”, by one of the representative organisations that took the case. In a lengthy decision... See more

A former lifeguard redeployed to a county council’s traffic department when the pool where he worked closed has had a claim he was discriminated against and victimised by his employer when that role too became redundant rejected by the Labour Court. Edwar... See more