Student nurses and midwives vent fury over pay cut plans

OVER 4,000 student nurses and midwives staged lunchtime protests at hospitals across the country yesterday over Government plans to cut their pay.

The action at 13 hospitals is part of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’ s (INMO) campaign to reverse pay cuts to for 4th year trainees working on wards during a nine-month placement.

The protests were attended by pre-registration nurses and midwives and students from all four years of the under-graduate programme, and supported by qualified colleagues.