Monthly Archives: June 2012

Bord na Móna workers picket outside the company’s head office this afternoon. Siptu say over 1,200 of their members are on strike over what they call a “bid to introduce performance-related elements” into [the National Wage] agreement.

Strike Action Under Way At Bord na Móna in Dispute Over Pay (RTE)

(Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

 

Outside Dublin City Hall earlier were Pat Hickey of the Olympic Council of Ireland with Irish soccer player Olivia O’Toole (left) and Joan Freeman, of Pieta House, with the Olympic Torch which will be lit (from the torch coming down from Northern ireland, we’re guessing) and carried through Dublin tomorrow on its way to London.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)