‘The patients will not be neglected during this strike’

“YOU deserve everything you are looking for,” union leader Liam Doran told nurses outside Dublin’s St Vincent’s University Hospital yesterday.

At 11am, the nurses left their assembly area at the hospital complex and set off to hear their leaders give rousing speeches from a platform fronting the busy Merrion Road.

Passersby honked and hooted in obvious support. A short time earlier, two women complained about the situation as they crossed to the hospital complex.