Families of residents at a Cork nursing home say they will not give up in their fight for more funding for the sector.
A large group representing residents at Beaumont nursing home staged a protest outside the Dail yesterday appealing to the Taoiseach to urgently intervene in the dispute.
53 residents of the nursing home may have to leave unless an agreement between management and the National Treatment Purchase Fund can be reached to meet cost of living increases.
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Protests are expected in Cork this morning as The Consultative Forum on International Security Policy begins.
The four day forum will include participation from civilians as well as military experts.
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Two people are missing and at least 30 people have been injured after a large explosion in the Latin Quarter of central Paris.
Smoke could be seen right across the French capital - and part of the Paris American Academy design school's collapsed.
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The US Coastguard has predicted the five men on board the missing submersible in the North Atlantic have enough oxygen to last until just after midday today.
The hunt is continuing for the group - who disappeared on their way to the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday.
