Ambulance crews to discuss action over reinstatement of spying colleague

Ambulance crews in the Mid-west will meet tonight to discuss what action to take in protest at the reinstatement of a former colleague who pleaded guilty in court to spying on female colleagues.

Former advanced paramedic Robert Murphy, aged 51, pleaded guilty to harassment after admitting to recording the activities of a work colleague on his mobile phone.

The phone had been hidden in a box of gloves with holes in it and placed on the windowsill in the toilet of the ambulance base in Tyone in Co Tipperary in May 2012.