Nurses To Hold Further Stoppages As Dispute Rumbles On
Nurses are due to embark on another day of work stoppages at four hospitals around the country today as part of their long-running campaign for more pay and a shorter working week.
Read MoreNurses are due to embark on another day of work stoppages at four hospitals around the country today as part of their long-running campaign for more pay and a shorter working week.
Read MoreSIPTU has accused the Health Service Executive of trying to privatise the country’s Ambulance Service. The claim was made after an expression of interest notice was posted on the government’s e-tender website on Friday.
Read MoreA community project to provide vital support and training for the families of people with autism in Omagh has received a massive boost from the Big Lottery Fund. The National Autistic Society received a grant of £345,114 to provide support, advice and information to local parents of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and raise awareness and understanding of autism amongst professionals in order to improve access to services.
Read MoreThe community and voluntary sector in the west of Ulster is currently working closely with the Western Health and Social Services Board to host two major workshops. The first of these workshops organised by Fermanagh Rural Community Network and Omagh Forum for Rural Associations was held recently in Killadeas.
Read MorePresident McAleese signed the controversial Criminal Justice Bill into law last night. Earlier, she had held a meeting of the Council of State to consider whether the measure should be referred to the Supreme Court.
Read MoreNurses and midwives staging a work-to-rule have until 5.30pm this evening to call off their action or face having 13% deducted from their pay. The HSE said it planned to take the action in a bid to recoup the €2m a week which it claimed the dispute was costing.
Read MoreAn Irish teenager has won a High Court battle in Dublin to be allowed to visit Britain for an abortion. The 17-year old was told by doctors her four-month foetus would not live more than a few days beyond its birth.
Read MoreCommunity workers are to launch a campaign to tackle the problem of children taking and dealing in drugs. Parents in Ligoniel in north Belfast said children as nine are stealing, not only to feed their habit, but to keep the dealers away from them.
Read MoreA Fermanagh priest and a Co Antrim man are due to go on trial in Liverpool today for a catalogue of horrific child sex attacks. Billy Adams (38), a native of Newtownabbey, is accused of several rapes and a string of other offences against a 12-year-old girl.
Read MoreThe INO and the PNA are expected to seek legal advice following the HSE’s threat to dock nurses’ pay as a result of their industrial action.
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