Toll charges could still increase in the new year.
Yesterday, Transport Minister Eamon Ryan directed Transport Infrastructure Ireland to explore alternative options to make up a shortfall in funding for the maintenance of roads.
An increase in toll charges is due to come into effect in January, but the government signalled it would be deferred until July.
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The government is being urged to designate long COVID as an occupational illness for frontline workers who contracted the virus due to their employment.
An amendment to the Social Welfare Bill will be tabled in the Dail today which could result in long COVID being listed as an occupational illness, allowing frontline workers to avail of long-term income assistance until they are fit to return to work.
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Ireland's first four-day week trial has been branded 'a resounding success'.
The 12 small to medium businesses that participated in the pilot have indicated they want to continue with the reduced working week in the long-term.
It was co-ordinated as part of a global trial, co-led by Four-Day Week Ireland, Fórsa trade union and UCD.
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In the US, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has been convicted of seditious conspiracy for a violent plot to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's presidential win.
The decision handed the Justice Department a major victory in its massive prosecution of the January 6th insurrection.
