Nurses object to transfer deadline

FINE GAEL TD Dara Murphy said there “was an element of let down” in seeing St Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital transfer to the southside of Cork after told voters during the election campaign that it would not be moved.

And Labour’s Cork South Central TD, Ciaran Lynch, has called on the HSE “to deal responsibly” with the waiting times of hundreds of emergency department patients who will now be travelling to Cork University Hospital (CUH) each week for treatment, rather than the South Infirmary.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Association said its members find it “objectionable” that such a tight deadline is being imposed.