Week 35 - Wednesday

Public service unions are warning of potentially widespread industrial action, with Fórsa backing strikes amid demands for measures to protect workers’ pay against rising prices. TUS has unveiled an ambitious €750 million development masterplan to 2040, including major new research, teaching, student and sporting facilities at its Athlone campus. The HSE has been fined €645,000 over serious data protection failures involving sensitive medical records, including documents stored in poor and insecure conditions at St Loman’s Hospital in Mullingar.