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Hopes grow that Kilkenny patients will be spared three more days of strike action next week

By Kilkenny Now 8th February 2019 0

HOPES are growing that Kilkenny patients will be spared another three days without vital hospital services next week. According to reports last night, “intense efforts” are currently underway in a bid to find a resolution to the nurses’ strike that crippled services at St Luke’s General Hospital for the third 24-hour period of stoppages over […]

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NURSES’ STRIKE, DAY 3: Kilkenny TD says Government must ‘meet nurses halfway’

By Kilkenny Now 7th February 2019 0

KILKENNY patients have been urged to stay away from local hospitals again today as day three of the nurses’ ongoing strike over pay and conditions gets underway. Nurses will return to the picket lines at St Luke’s General Hospital and Kilcreene hospital from 8.30am amid mounting calls for a resolution in the dispute that has […]

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Kilkenny patients face more disruption this week as nurses escalate strike action

By Kilkenny Now 4th February 2019 0

PATIENT services at St Luke’s General Hospital will be severely curtailed again this week when striking nurses return to the picket line tomorrow and Thursday. And our ailing health services’ winter of discontent looks set to continue after the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) confirmed a major escalation in its dispute with the Government […]

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Huge support for Kilkenny nurses as they take to the picket line

By Kilkenny Now 30th January 2019 0

KILKENNY patients have been urged to stay away from our hospitals except in the case of emergencies as the nationwide nurses’ strike impacts in services. Nurses took to the picket line outside St Luke’s General Hospital and Kilkcreene hospital from 8am this morning. Local members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) brazed bitterly […]

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BREAKING: 21 patients on trolleys at St Luke’s as talks to avert nurses’ strike fail

By Kilkenny Now 29th January 2019 0

OVERCROWDING figures at St Luke’s General Hospital rose significantly today as patients across the country braced themselves for tomorrow’s nurses’ strike. A total of 21 patients at St Luke’s were treated on trolleys at the hospital today, almost double the 11 recorded by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) less than a week ago […]

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REVEALED: How nurses’ strike will affect hospital services for Kilkenny patients

By Kilkenny Now 26th January 2019 0

PATIENT services at St Luke’s General Hospital will be severely affected on Wednesday when the first of six planned 24-hour nurses’ strikes gets underway. The strike action now seems certain to go ahead following the breakdown of talks at the Workplace Relations Commission yesterday. The Health Services Executive (HSE) has warned of widespread closures and restrictions

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BREAKING: Number of patients on trolleys at St Luke’s quadruples as hospital overcrowding levels soar

By Kilkenny Now 18th January 2019 0

THE number of patients left languishing on trolleys at St Luke’s General Hospital has more than quadrupled in the space of just four days, KilkennyNow.ie can reveal. Latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) trolley ward watch reveal 46 patients at our local hospital were forced to wait for a bed today […]

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Hospital patients face disruption as nurses announce six days of strike action

By Kilkenny Now 8th January 2019 0

HOSPITAL patients in Kilkenny face the threat of disruption as more than 40,000 nurses across the country are set to go on strike. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation today announced a series of six stoppages, beginning at the end of this month, unless the Government agrees to pay rises. Nurses threatened to strike on […]