Medical Scientists have suspended further industrial action in their dispute over pay and conditions.
They've accepted an invitation to attend the Labour Court for exploratory talks.
Both the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association and HSE/Department of Health have accepted the invitation.
The MLSA has now called on it's 2,100 members to resume work as normal tomorrow.
Thousands of hospitals procedures have been cancelled as a result today's strike and action last week.
A Monaghan lab scientist says all they want is equal pay for equal work.
Mairead Caraher is a laboratory scientist from Ballybay and working in Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda.
She says the issue has been ongoing for two decades.