Industrial Action Retained firefighters accept new pay deal to resolve industrial actionDeal will see minimum earnings of retained firefighters jump from €10,500 to up to €21,000 per year
Politics Retained firefighters agree to pause strikes but threaten ‘escalation’ if no agreementSiptu is threatening to close every fire station if discussions don’t bring about agreement, after Labour Court calls dispute matter of ‘national importance’
Politics O’Brien handed pager device used by on-call firefighters during Dáil ‘stunt’Opposition TDs were given alerters by the firefighters who asked them to deliver them to the Housing Minister in what has been described as an ‘act of theatre’
Industrial Action Retained firefighters considering quitting over conditions dispute, says unionIndustrial action saw up to half of the fire stations in the service close this week, with members threatening an ‘all-out strike'
Politics Explainer: why are the country’s retained fire fighters going on strike?The dispute is the culmination of years of unrest about pay and conditions for the country’s 2,000 part-time firefighters