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GOOD PROGRESS IS being reported in the public sector pay talks.
Government officials and unions held a meeting that lasted until the early hours of the morning last night.
However, the exact details of any increase in pay, or an extension to Haddington Road, have yet to be finalised.
Leaving the talks last night, IMPACT’s Niall Shanahan said a “lot of progress” had been made and that the talks were now in the “closing stages”.
One change being considered is an increase of €1,000 per year for public servants for two years – centred on changes to the pension levy, in return for an extension of the Haddington Road deal over the next same timeframe.
Plans to dismantle FEMPI legislation were announced in the Spring Statement.
Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin said he had invited representatives for public servants to talks, but that any pay increase must be matched with continued productivity improvements and reform.
Both sides will meet again at the Labour Relations Commission at 10am. The finished up overnight at around 2am.
With reporting from Daragh Brophy.
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I could pay, or I could just download adblocker..
There are ads on YouTube?
What is wrong with everyone? Using adblocker is no different than walking into a shop and stealing a loaf of bread.
That is the most ridiculous comment I’ve seen in a long long time……
You’re taking money away from a company. Just because you are hiding behind a laptop screen doesn’t make it any more wrong.
No wonder we have all these protests now. This is a generation that just thinks everything should be given to it for free.
Sarah that is truly the silliest comment of the week
Sarah Troll troll troll
Keep on Trollin,Muppet
Did someone say troll?
It’s ok everyone. I’m here now and I can confirm that Sarah is YFG troll. Return to your families.
And remember Sarah/Aidan/Tracy/baz/patjoe
I’m always watching
Sarah go back to sniffing ur armpit ur better at that
This is the first time that a comment from Sarah/Aidan/whatever hasn’t resulted in everyone going into meltdown and ruining the comment section. My faith in the journal is returning.
Keep trying Sarah, it amuses me when a troll fails this hard!
Robert it’s not a coincidence. I think I’ve finally driven her back. I’m going to power nap for about half and hour then return for my nightly shift here to make sure everything’s ok.
I actually don’t have a problem with ads. It’s the complete lack of customer targeting. I don’t have adblock on my phone. It just happened to me earlier on when I opened up a video on AngryJoe and the ad was for P&G shampoo. Why? The ad is clearly targeted at women. But Google has been collecting data on me for years, they should know not to target me with inane ads that I’m immediately going to skip.
Fight the good fight Dave!
Mong using me account @davedunne aiden/tracy. This is the one and only comment I have on this thread. And just use add blocker.
I have ad blocker but I have it restricted to one or two sites that actually have spam pop ups open like tv show websites, other than that I allow ads on other sites especially YouTube because as a YouTube user myself every view counts haha.
They see you trollin’, they hatin’!
Angryjoe is awesome he has saved me so much money.
Folks using firefox can look up ad nausuem extension which when with ad blocker both blocks and clicks on the ads generating revenue if they are on a PPC ad type system.
My main concern is poor ads, youtube plays me stuff that I have no interest in or would ever really want, I thought Google and Facebook where supposed to know more about me.
The ads actually turn me off the product being promoted
If you take the last letter of every third word in your post you get yfg.
Did you really think you were going to fool me that easily patjoe?
YFG now communicating to each other here in code now? Nothing gets past me.
Wtf?
you could just click on skip
Glen ole buddy,maybe it’s time to give up the Internet,it’s been 3 solid years now,look at you,commenting on articles about YouTube,is this what it’s come to buddy? It’s time to meet some,you know,real people….
They tend to bore me.
Ad blocker pro is a plugin for chrome.
Works every time and it’s free.
Don’t forget firefox as well.
Redtube won’t work now. Thanks for nothing. But on a serious note, I sent a link to a mate who opened it in the presence of his boss. Nothing NSFW in my version of the page, Adblock plus installed. However, my mate didn’t have adblocker software installed on his work pc. Rumbled.
They’d make a fortune if 0.001% were willing to pay….
No for just removal of advertising. Maybe yes for some decent premium content. The problem is that paid services are adding up more and more and have to decide only for the best of them. Already paying monthly for Netflix, Spotify, Google for business, playstation plus and Xbox live. Never mind other standard bills.
It’s a lot cheaper than buying DVDs, games, CDs and books every month. I have a ridiculous amount of subscriptions as well, but it’s worth it.
Sarah are you married to Paul Carey another well known Journal troll
Or you could use the hosts.zip file. Adverts would be blocked across all browsers and all applications in one go. It’s updated every two months with new sites to block. Never ever seen any ads on YouTube other than on the iPad.
Only a matter of time before they block adblocker like channel 4/RTE have to make their subscription plan more enticing
If folks are on firefox, and use adblocker but also feel bad about not clicking on ads.
you can download an extension called ad nauseum which when combined with adblocker will auto block all ads, and simultaneously click on them all and close them at the same time. Boom, you’re a better customer than they could hope for.
Banner ads are the worst.
Adblocker is an excellent extension that cuts through a lot of chaff content. Banner ads are so wildly unsuccessfuly, a fraction of a percent of the time is all they ever get clicked on.
Youtube ads are worse, having only 5 seconds to grab your attention before you skip.
I don’t think a pass on ads would be enough for a piad sub, maybe a less compressed video, better higher quality stuff especially sound, if they offered a higher bitrate player for sound alla the 1080p60fps they offer now, but I don’t see the need to offer paid subs to do that.
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