Demands are being made for an emergency meeting on the strike affecting schools.
The ongoing action by school secretaries and caretakers across the country is continuing today - as their call for pension parity with other workers is met with a wall of silence from Government.
Labour’s Education Spokesperson Eoghan Kenny says schools are struggling to operate as normal without their essential workers - and he's written to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education asking it to intervene.
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There's been a surge in the seizure of fake weight-loss medications bought online.
400,000 units of illegal medicines have been seized in the first half of the year.
Sedatives, anabolic steroids, and erectile-disfunction drugs top the list.
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The Irish Council for Civil Liberties is urging caution around the move to arm frontline Gardai with tasers.
Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly wants to introduce the non lethal weapons to help officers protect themselves.
A pilot project to equip Gardai with stun guns is now being planned.
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Fr. Ted writer Graham Linehan is due in court in the UK later to face trial, accused of harassing a woman.
The 57-year-old Dubliner denies charges related to Sophia Brooks in October.
He was arrested at Heathrow on Monday over social media posts.
