Community workers strike over pay outside Social Protection offices

A Siptu protest at the Department of Social Protection offices in Dublin. Picture: PA/Brian Lawless

Protesters gathered outside Department of Social Protection offices in Dublin and Waterford to call for an increase in pay for care and community workers for the first time in more than 10 years.

A third protest was held in Eyre Square in Galway City, as part of a 24-hour work stoppage.