Nurse on nearly same money now as she was while stacking mascara

Bernie Mullins, 29, a graduate nurse in Limerick Regional Hospital, earned nearly the same amount of money stacking mascara as she now does nursing.

“I worked in a pharmacy before I did nursing and I got nearly the same wages as I am now for no more responsibility than checking was the mascara stocked on a shelf. I’m sick of it now,” she said.

She was speaking at a nursing protest outside Dáil Éireann yesterday, that was calling for the restoration of an incremental credit for nurses who graduated between 2011 and 2015.