Nurses at an Intellectual Disability Services facility in Sligo have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action over the level of staffing there.

Ireland dropped eight places on an international ranking of health services in the last year.

Nurses are to stage a lunchtime protest tomorrow at the Midland Regional Hospital in Mullingar to highlight overcrowding there.

Nurses at the Emergency Department at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin have agreed to defer industrial action which was scheduled to commence next week.

Members of the public are being asked to join with nurses for tomorrows lunchtime protest outside the Dáil.

Nurses at Galway University Hospital's Emergency Department have voted unanimously in favour of industrial action over overcrowding in the department.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says it is imperative that Beaumont Hospital go off call immediately for an extended period due to severe overcrowding in the Emergency Department.

Nurses working in the Emergency Department in Beaumont Hospital, will hold the first of a series of lunchtime protests at the gates of the hospital today at 1pm.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) is calling for a strategic plan to alleviate overcrowding and staff shortages at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

Nurses who are members of the INMO will hold a lunchtime protest today outside Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is calling for disaster protocol to be invoked at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, due to severe overcrowding.

Nurses at Naas General Hospital are to be balloted for industrial action next week.

A hospital consultant’s offer to give up about €36,000 of his annual pay to employ a midwife in one of the country’s busiest maternity units demonstrated the desperate state of hospital staffing, it was claimed tonight.

MIDWIVES at a large private hospital are to ballot for industrial action tomorrow in a row over redundancy.

LETTERS and pledges of support have been pouring in for Dr Séamus O'Reilly since a letter he sent to the Tánaiste and the Health Service Executive (HSE) outlining the chronic state of cancer services was published earlier this week.

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney was yesterday accused of presiding over “absolute bedlam” as nurses protested around the country over the A&E crisis and the soaring number of patients on trolleys.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has said plans to refer patients from Cavan General Hospital to Drogheda Hospital for surgery are unrealistic and unworkable.

THE Irish Nurses’ Organisation yesterday declared the A&E department at the Mater Hospital as “out of control”, on the same day when Health Minister Micheál Martin reported very significant progress had been made in tackling waiting times in nine target surgical areas.

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO), has welcomed the publication of the independent review into the death of baby Bronagh Livingstone and joined the baby's grandfather in calling for the resignation of the North Eastern Health Board.

The Irish Nurses Organisation has described the North Eastern Health Board's decisions on Monaghan General Hospital as 'Machiavellian'.