Over 11-hundred workers at Irish Life are to walk off the job today in a row over pay.

Staff say the refusal to link wages to inflation is unfair and will leave workers unsure of future earnings.

Unite trade union members will leave the financial institution's offices in Dublin and Dundalk for two hours at midday.

It's the second time they've done so and warn they'll do it twice more if they don't get what they want.

Protesters are willing to enter talks at the Labour Court but Maeve Brehony of Unite says pay needs to be top of the agenda: