A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Pharmacists ballot on possible strike
Community pharmacists are balloting on possible industrial action in protest at what they say is a failure by the Department of Health and the HSE to hold talks on a range of grievances, including a new contract.
The IPU yesterday declined to disclose the options being offered to members to highlight their grievances. However, it said industrial action was on the ballot paper, which was sent out last week. The IPU leadership will decide what action to take after the count next week.
Support for Fianna Fáil unchanged
The latest Red C tracking poll in yesterday's Sunday Business Post shows Fianna Fáil support unchanged over the past month at 39 per cent.
Fine Gael support is unchanged at 23 per cent, Labour is up two points to 12 per cent, the PDs are up one to 4 per cent, Sinn Féin is down two points to 8 per cent and the Greens are down one to 7 per cent.
Support for Independents is unchanged at 7 per cent.
Bomb squad deals with grenade
The Army bomb squad was called to Limerick on Saturday to deal with a hand grenade that was thrown into a house in O'Malley Park. The house was empty at the time and gardaí evacuated neighbouring residents while the area was cordoned off.
A team from the Army bomb disposal squad based in Cork examined the device and said it was a grenade that failed to explode.
Man (20) arrested over gun incident
A man was arrested following an incident at a public house in Clondalkin, Dublin, over the weekend where a sawn-off shotgun was produced and pointed at staff and customers.
Gardaí responded to a call and tackled a 20-year-old man, recovering a sawn-off shotgun in the process.
De Valera's 'warts and all' memoir
Síle de Valera, who will step down as a junior minister in two weeks, says she has started writing a "warts and all memoir" about her time in politics. She told TV3's The Political Party yesterday that she had kept a diary during her nearly 30 years in politics.