Striking ambulance workers ‘prepared for the long haul’

Paramedics Aileen McClean (left) and Katie Loughran on the picket line outside Dundalk Ambulance Station as members of SIPTU and UNITE union paramedics in the National Ambulance Service go on strike. Picture date: Tuesday May 12, 2026. Picture: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Picketing ambulance workers have said they are “prepared for the long haul” after they began 24-hour strike action over a pay dispute at 8am on Tuesday.

Workers in the National Ambulance Services – including emergency medical technicians, paramedics, advanced paramedics, paramedic specialists and paramedic supervisors – began a 24-hour strike action at 8am on Tuesday.