A significant number of hospital appointments will be cancelled again today - even though industrial action has been called off.
Over 2,000 medical scientists are returning to work as normal this morning, after cancelling a third planned work stoppage at the last minute.
All sides are holding talks in the Labour Court today.
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Tanaiste Leo Varadkar has reacted positively to the news that Apple is to expand it's Hollyhill operations with the construction of a new campus building that can accommodate 1300 employees
The global tech giant has applied to the County Council for planning permission for what it describes as brand new state of the art facilities.
Apple currently has around 6,000 employees in the city.
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Gardai could be given access to facial recognition technology, under plans to be unveiled by the Justice Minister today.
Helen McEntee will tell the Garda Representative Association conference she intends to legislate for it with Cabinet approval.
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19 children and two teachers have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a primary school in Texas.
It happened in the city of Uvalde.
Officials say the teenager behind the attack was killed by a police officer.
