Emergency medical technicians and paramedics began 24-hour strike action on Tuesday morning.

The €35 million plus vat acquisition by Cork City Council at the former Beamish and Crawford site will replace the existing library in Grand Parade which opened in 1930.

Gunshot strikes were discovered on the front door of a house in the Creggan area of Londonderry.

The strike involves pickets at ambulance depots which began at 8am, including at Davitt Road in Dublin South Central.

Pickets will be placed at ambulance bases around the country as part of the action by ambulance crews who are members of Siptu and Unite, who are engaged in a dispute over pay

Here, we take a look at the issues likely to dominate political discourse in the week to come

Tuesday's front pages

General Secretary of the Unite the Union, Sharon Graham, said Irish paramedics have been left ‘with no option but to take action’.

Micheál Martin said his party had historically made ‘very significant achievements’ in housing.

More than 2,200 pubs have closed since 2005, with the rate of closure increasing in recent years to an average of 128 per annum

Cyril Keegan (54) involved himself in a criminal scheme and acted as a “conduit” for convicted money launderer Simon Gold, helping him to defraud various injured parties, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard on Monday.

Declan Morgan, chief commissioner of the ICRIR, said he is ‘deeply sorry that this has happened on my watch’.

The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his ex-partner, subjected his victim to a prolonged barrage of degrading attacks

Over 100 gardaí conducted searches across Donegal, Sligo, Monaghan, and Laois, while there was also searches by the PSNI in Co Tyrone.

The victim, also in his mid-teens, required six weeks of treatment and had his jaw wired following the incident in October 2024

His lawyers said the trial judge was wrong to rule them admissible because she deemed the fact that Gerard Cervi “adopts a stance similar to that described of the gunman” to be relevant.

Ireland joins Spain and Slovenia in refusing to compete or broadcast the competition, while the Netherlands and Iceland refused to send acts.

The 2025 Toy Show appeal in the days after the show on December 5th raised €4.6m that included over €3.5 million was donated via Revolut.

In the same incident, Mark Salmon (33) told the woman that he would drive over her son with his car, and if he was still not dead, he would "put a bullet in his head".

However, PTSB shareholder Piotr Skoczylas, a director of Scotchstone Capital which has a one per cent share, along with two other minority shareholders, are opposing PTSB's process of approving the acquisition scheme.