Fórsa have served a formal notice of industrial action on local authority chief executives yesterday, in an ongoing dispute with the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA) over their refusal to establish a job evaluation scheme. The news was picked up by RTE.

HSE chief executive, Bernard Gloster, has ordered his finance team to slash its spending on private management consultants by up to €40m. Fórsa's Ashley Connolly is quoted in a piece by the Irish Examiner saying that a 30% cut is not sufficient. You can read the full story HERE.

Fórsa's Richy Carrother spoke with RED FM on the failure to protect library staff from intimidation and harrassment. You can read that HERE.

Firefighters are into their their day of rolling, one-day work stoppages as they ratchet up their protest for better pay and conditions. The move affects half the county’s stations at any one time.

In the latest Irish Times opinion poll, support for Fine Gael and for Sinn Féin has dropped, while Fianna Fáil and the Social Democrats both see a boost in support.

The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to increase interest rates to their highest level in more than two decades today, leaving mortgage holders facing higher monthly repayment bills.

Protests took place in more than 40 Polish cities yesterday to highlight the death of 33-year-old Dorota Lalik, who was five months' pregnant and died of sepsis in a hospital in Nowy Targ, southern Poland in late May. Organisers of the nationwide protests, a collection of Polish women's rights groups, said that Dorota was the fifth pregnant woman to have died in Polish hospitals due to complications since the country’s Constitutional Tribunal introduced a near-total ban on abortion in October 2020.

Searches for survivors are continuing in Greece a day after a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank in the Ionian Sea.The coast guard said 78 bodies had been recovered so far, amending a toll of 79 deaths given yesterday.

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On this day in 1994 Disney's animated musical film "The Lion King" opened in theaters.