Nurses to hold twice-weekly lunchtime protests

The Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) has decided to go ahead with a series of lunchtime protests outside A&E hospital departments.

The INO has launched the "Enough is Enough" campaign in response to what the it calls a crisis situation, following a meeting of the organisation's executive council today.

The action is due to start on April 7 at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital and Wexford, and will involve 30-minute protests, which will be repeated every Tuesday and Thursday for the month of April.

Deputy General Secretary David Hughes outlined its objective as “getting the public to support patients in their plight and try and get the Government to take real action on this”.