UK and Australia poaching Ireland's 'burnt-out' nurses

Hospitals in the UK and Australia are “aggressively recruiting” Ireland’s burnt-out nurses.

“We’ve a very serious problem with the UK aggressively recruiting our qualifying sick children nurses, particularly Great Ormond Street.

"Unfortunately, our conditions of employment are such that it seems far more attractive for our nurses to emigrate,” said Phil Ní Sheaghdha, the general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).