目前，包括护士、医生、教师和公务员在内的30多万名劳动者正在爱尔兰全境举行罢工。
More than 300,000 workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers and civil servants, are on strike across the Republic of Ireland.
此次罢工正值公共部门员工与爱尔兰政府之间的薪酬纠纷持续之际，另一次罢工计划于10月21日举行。
It comes amid an ongoing pay dispute between public sector workers and the Irish government, with a further strike planned on 21 October.
预计在这次为期24小时的罢工期间，众多学校将停课，医院预约也将被取消，全国各地还会出现罢工示威队伍。
It is expected schools could be closed with hospital appointments cancelled and picket lines formed across the country during the 24-hour strike.
9月底，包括护士、学校工作人员及公务员在内的10多万名劳动者开始采取“按规章工作”的抗议措施。10月初，爱尔兰的中小学教师也相继加入了这一抗议行动。
At the end of September, more than 100,000 workers, including nurses, school staff and civil servants, moved to work-to-rule measures. At the start of October, primary and secondary school teachers in the Republic began work-to-rule action.
此前，在Fórsa工会组织的投票中，近97%的会员都支持采取抗议行动。该工会是爱尔兰规模最大的公共服务行业工会。
Previously almost 97% of Fórsa members, who voted in an industrial ballot, did so in favour of action. It is the Republic's biggest public service union.
SIPTU工会负责公共医疗与行政领域员工事务的部门负责人布伦丹·奥布赖恩曾表示，正是员工的“善意”才使得各项公共服务得以正常运转。
Brendan O'Brien divisional organiser of SIPTU, which represents public sector health and administration workers, previously said the "goodwill" of workers was a large part of what kept public services going.
不过他也指出，由于爱尔兰政府未能为正式谈判搭建平台，“我们的会员们别无选择，只能采取集体行动”。
However, he said the Irish government's failure to establish a basis for formal talks "left our members with no alternative but to act collectively".
周二，爱尔兰财政部长杰克·钱伯斯称此次罢工“令人深感失望”，称其将给经济带来严重冲击，届时会有大量医院预约被取消，众多学校也将停课。
On Tuesday Jack Chambers, the Republic's minister for expenditure, described the strike action as "deeply disappointing" saying it would cause significant disruption to the economy, with thousands of hospital appointments set to be cancelled and schools closed.
道恩·哈钦斯-沃尔什是都柏林哈茨敦社区学校的一名教师，每天从威克洛郡通勤上班。
Dawn Hutchings-Walsh is a teacher at Hartstown Community School in Dublin, and commutes from County Wicklow every day.
她在接受爱尔兰广播公司RTÉ采访时说：“现在的工资水平根本无法像以前那样维持生活了。”
Speaking to Irish broadcaster RTÉ she said the "pay just isn't stretching the way that it used to".
她的同事西妮德·麦卡锡则表示，自己曾不得不暂时中断职业生涯，前往迪拜工作两年以攒下购房首付。
Her colleague Sinéad McCarthy said she had to take a career break and move to Dubai for a couple of years to save money for a deposit.
“在当前的经济环境下，以我们在这里的收入水平，想在爱尔兰攒钱买房根本不现实，”她说。
"It's just not feasible in Ireland to be able to save for a house considering the circumstances and the money that we are on here in this country," she said.
琳达·凯利是爱尔兰中学教师协会（ASTI）的秘书长。她表示，教师们“在薪酬方面确实苦不堪言”。
Linda Kelly is the general secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) said teachers are "really struggling in terms of their pay".
“他们觉得政府并未重视他们的诉求。过去几个月里，政府对此事采取放任不管的态度，这让教师们倍感失望。”
"They don't feel like the government is taking them seriously, there's a lot of disappointment with the laissez-faire approach from government over the last couple of months.
“本来有足够的时间来解决这一问题，但政府却无所作为，结果就导致了如今的局面，”凯利对爱尔兰广播公司说道。
"There's been ample time to solve this issue and the government has sat on its hands and this is the result now," Kelly told RTÉ.