Royal College of Nursing

Union leaders met on Thursday to discuss what had been tabled by health officials, with some describing the settlement as "unacceptable".

The unions decision is due to nursing staff continuing to be denied the pay award that's been given to colleagues in other parts of the UK.

In recent years health workers have gone on strike to fight for pay parity with their colleagues in the rest of the UK.

Tina Donnelly was "a nurse to be reckoned with", a nursing union leader has said.

The move comes after warnings there are up to three times more graduates than vacancies in some areas of the health service.

The dispute, with the Northern Ireland Executive, Department of Health and health and social care employers, follows results of a ballot.

Pat Cullen recalls confronting a soldier during a checkpoint search in County Tyrone in the 1980s.