Additional strike action by nurses may be on the cards with the executive council of the INMO set to meet today.
They'll be discussing escalating the dispute beyond the five days already announced.
Industrial action is planned for Tuesday and Thursday next week, and for three days the following week.
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Searches are resuming in Louth this morning after a weapon and substantial amounts of ammunition were discovered yesterday.
They were discovered at a site near Omeath.
The operation by members of the Garda Special Detective and Emergency Response Units is part of an ongoing investigation targeting dissident Republican groups.
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A governor in the US state of Virginia has apologised for appearing in a 1984 photograph showing a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe.
Ralph Northam is facing calls for his resignation following the the publication of a medical school yearbook page, which showed the picture as well as several other photographs of the Democratic leader.
He confirmed in a statement he was pictured in a costume that was "clearly racist and offensive" and that the behaviour was "not in keeping with who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career".
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The Sinn Féin leader says plans for a vote on Irish unity need to be stepped up as the debate is already taking place.
Mary Lou McDonald says the British prime minister has acted in bad faith reneging on her Brexit deal and that provisions for a unity referendum under the Good Friday Agreement should be looked at.
Her comments come ahead of a Sinn Féin Irish Unity event, which is taking place in Dublin later.
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In Britain Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley and Heather Mills have come to an agreement over phone hacking claims against The Sun and the News of the World.
Their lawyers confirmed the settlement against News Group Newspapers (NGN), days before a trial was to start at the British High Court.
Solicitors Hamlins said Elton John and his husband David Furnish, actress and model Ms Hurley, Ms Mills and her sister Fiona Mills had agreed terms with NGN.
