Emmet McElhatton
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Irish public sector: More than 100,000 workers take industrial action (opens the original)
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Some health, education and council workers in the Republic of Ireland have commenced industrial action over an ongoing public sector pay dispute. More than 100,000 workers, including nurses, school staff and civil servants, moved to work-to-rule measures on Wednesday morning. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) said its public health service staff will perform only duties necessary for safe patient care and "will not work any additional unpaid hours". Two days of fuller strike acti
Stormont: Northern Ireland budget entering 'no-deal territory', says education minister (opens the original)
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A budget "ultimatum" offered by the Northern Ireland Secretary to the Stormont executive "isn't going to bode well for trying to get a settled outcome", Education Minister Paul Givan has warned. Givan said negotiations with the UK Government were entering "no-deal territory", after Sir Chris Bryant said on Thursday there would be no improvement on his £1.5m offer. Sir Chris said there was "no more money" available and has given executive parties until next Thursday to respond. Givan said the cur
Paul Givan: Children with a parent on benefits will not be eligible for priority pre-school place (opens the original)
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Most children with a parent on benefits will not be eligible for priority nursery places from next year under changes to the rules announced by Education Minister Paul Givan. The minister said he believed the rules - known as Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances (SDC) criterion, external - were not "lawful" and were "discriminating against hard-working families". He added that the move would "level the playing field" for pre-school admissions. However, critics have said the rules made sure vulne
Has Trump's Cuba policy hit a takeaway thousands of miles away? (opens the original)
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The owner of a takeaway who claimed President Donald Trump's sanctions on Cuba led to £7,000 in payments being withheld said the issue has been resolved. Carlos Arguelles Leblanch, who owns the Cuban Sandwich Factory, said he believed banking software mistakenly identified his business as one which should be subject to recently stepped-up US sanctions. Many of his customers come through the delivery app Deliveroo. In his case, when an order is placed, payment first goes through Citibank before r
Northern Ireland Teachers' unions vote in favour of strike action (opens the original)
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Northern Ireland's five teaching unions have voted to strike if the Department of Education does not address grievances over workload. In recent ballots, union members all returned large majorities in favour of industrial action. The unions said members were balloted following "sustained failure to deliver a credible implementation plan for the 27 recommendations of the Independent Review of Workload". Education Minister Paul Givan said negotiations on the issue had made "significant progress" o
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