Nurses protest graduate plan

Nurses are preparing to take a stand this weekend to protest against Government plans to undercut existing pay scales with new graduate placements.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) confirmed they will both boycott the proposal, introduced by Health Minister James Reilly last month.

Their opposition will be spelled out at Saturday’s rally which will take place in Croke Park at 11am.