Doctors have resumed plans for a strike next week - over what the Irish Medical Organisation says are 'dangerously long working hours' for Junior Doctors.

The IMO says the strike will take place at all the country's hospitals on Tuesday the 8th of October.

The Union says the HSE failed to offer solutions to the situation which sees junior doctors routinely working shifts of longer than 24 hours straight.

Eric Young is a spokesman for the IMO;