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Record number on hospital trollies: Legacy of underfunding and austerity
By Donal Devlin 2023 opened with an all-too-familiar story of overcrowding in public hospitals across the state –…
North: Nurses ballot for strike action
Members of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) in the North and Britain are balloting for strike action…
Inhuman working hours: Junior doctors ballot for industrial action
By Mick Barry, Socialist Party TD HSE junior doctors are expected to vote by a decisive majority to…
NMH must be 100% public, secular & progressive
The resounding two-thirds majority vote in the 2018 repeal referendum vote was undeniably a vote for both abortion…
Beacon Hospital vaccine controversy — how the super-rich can ignore the rules
Vaccines being doled out as if they were tickets for a corporate box in the Aviva Stadium. This…
Covid crisis: Suppress the virus – health before profit
By Finghín Kelly Last week while being interviewed about Ryanair’s near €1billion loss Michael O’Leary arrogantly attacked the…
Irish government fails to protect healthcare workers
By Valerie O’Leary The proportion of healthcare workers contracting Covid-19 in Ireland is amongst the highest in the…
End private ownership of hospitals – with no compensation
By Colm McCarthy The severe pressure the health service has come under from the Covid-19 outbreak has led…
Healthcare in Ireland: A system at breaking point
By Finghín Kelly The Irish health system is at breaking point. Last year was the worst year on…
Oppose union busting: Victory to striking paramedics
Ambulance paramedics, advance paramedics and emergency medical technicians are striking today for union recognition and against the Government’s…
