Hospital doctors to strike over work hours

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) confirmed the move will occur within the next three weeks after a ballot of 1,000 of the union’s 2,000 junior doctors found 97% in favour of the controversial step.
The union said junior doctors are being forced to work up to 100 hours a week in hospitals throughout the country, shift-lengths which are in breach of a 13-year-old European Working Time Directive.