Brian O'Donovan from the RTÉ looks at the timeline of public sector pay talks in the wake of Budget 2024. In recent years, public sector pay deals have been agreed in advance of Budget Day, but not this year.
Over 260,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in Gaza, as heavy Israeli bombardments from the air, land and sea continue to hit the Palestinian enclave, the United Nations has said.
Stockholm, Sweden, is set to ban petrol and diesel cars in a central 20-block area of the city as of 2025 in a bid to improve air quality. The ban, which will go into force on 31 December, 2024, is being introduced in an area with a lot of pedestrians and cyclists, where the air quality needs to be better.
Four County Waterford convenience store workers are to receive more than €40,000 after being denied their correct notice and redundancy payments when their workplaces shut down just ten days before Christmas last year.
And Nasa is set to reveal the first images of the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, something scientists hope will yield clues about the earliest days of our solar system.
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