Nurses urge public to join Dáil protest over overcrowding

As hospitals brace themselves for industrial action, the country’s largest nursing union has called on the public to join in a major protest outside the Dáil today to highlight emergency department (ED) overcrowding.

Nurses from hospitals in the midwest are the latest to vote in favour of industrial action, following the lead set by colleagues from Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and Galway University Hospital.

Talks between management at Beaumont and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) are under way at the Labour Relations Commission in a bid to stave off a work-to-rule scheduled for January 27.