Ireland’s Labor Court is working with representatives from the Garda, the Irish police force, in an attempt to halt the strike planned for Friday. The Court’s findings will be released to the Garda Representative Association, the union representing most of the 12,500 workers planning to strike. The GRA has already conceded to suggest to many of the strikers that they show up to work instead. If 12,500 members of the police force do not show up to work on Friday, the Garda will be staffed by only 300 officers, and 950 students. Ireland’s Tánaiste (or Deputy Prime Minister) Frances Fitzgerald is still pushing the GRA to “pull back from the brink…and suspend tomorrow’s actions”.
See "Gardaí to provide significant policing cover on strike day", Conor Lally, The Irish Times, November 3, 2016