Pat Fitzgerald, a former Waterford Crystal worker who was a widower aged in his 70s, was found in a house in St Catherine’s Grange Housing Estate last Friday.

A statutory maximum working temperature is among extreme-weather proposals being put forward by an Irish union.

In response to the unions' release, the HSE said that Bernard Gloster has asked the HSE's National Employee Relations Service to request the Work Relations Commission to intervene in the threatened industrial action.

Unite said withholding pay when employees are unable to work could be considered an unauthorised deduction from wages, and therefore unlawful.

Siptu and Fórsa agreed pay rises of 12 per cent with Aer Lingus in recent years, but the deals include a clause where they can go back to the airline if another group of workers secures a better deal

The first walkout in the dispute over pay will take place on Thursday February 1.

Public sector workers are taking part in walk-outs in a dispute over a pay award.

The walkouts are expected to be the largest strike in the North in recent history

Carey Glass claims approximately 20 people, some with Unite the Union flags, staged protests outside its premises in Nenagh on August 16th and 25th

Unite said the action comes after the Local Government Management Association failed to engage with the union over issues raised concerning retained firefighters

The claim relates to works being done at a Dublin Bus garage at Harristown that, according to the union, were having an effect on the workers’ ability to perform day-to-day duties to a satisfactory level

Trade unions have criticised Government plans to increase the minimum wage by 80 cent to €11.30 an hour, saying it does not go far enough to address the cost-of-living crisis