Protests planned for four hospitals
Protests are to be staged at four Dublin hospitals next week against Government plans to allow private developers to build on public land, it was announced today.
The Sinn Féin-organised demonstrations are a response to Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney’s proposals to allow private hospitals be sited next to public hospitals.
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