Frontline public servants form alliance to fight cuts

OVER 100,000 public servants providing frontline services in healthcare, security and emergency response will resist Government attempts to impose the cutbacks proposed in the McCarthy report.

The new umbrella group, the Frontline Service Alliance, which brings together nurses, gardaí, firefighters and defences forces’ unions and representatives associations, had its first meeting in Dublin yesterday.

Irish Nurses’ Organisation general secretary Liam Doran condemned commentators who want to slash and burn but “fail to identify what essential services they actually want to cut, or acknowledge that such services are essential to any civilised society”.