That Irish Times front page story is available here, while the Irish Daily Mail's Brian Mahon focuses on the planned action coinciding with the EPC meeting which will see major political leaders such as Mark Carney, Andy Burnham, Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky visiting Dublin for the high-profile event, as both Fórsa and the AHCPS confirming they would be unlikely to grant a derogation to civil servants assigned to work at the event.
In the Irish Examiner, Louise Burne writes that the Government "is facing the embarrassing prospect of 300,000 public sector workers striking on the same day as Ireland’s biggest event of its European presidency." In her analysis piece in the same paper, Burne writes that "Unions have the upper hand — and could embarrass Government at flagship EU event."
In her Irish Independent coverage, Mary Regan reports on the figure offered and the gulf between the parties, claiming to know the union side ask on pay, putting it at 11-12%, which seems speculative and is not attributed to any source.
One correspondent to the Irish Times letters page takes a somewhat cynical view of proceedings, describing developments as a "charade" designed to "create the impression we have two opposing sides in these negotiations, whereas what we actually have is public servants in the Department of Public Expenditure negotiating with public servants in the unions, all of whom will benefit from the deal that is eventually agreed."
Your Zen this morning is a new release from Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan. The album is called Industrial Growth and this morning's selection is called, appropriately enough, Industrial Unrest
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