By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY patients face serious disruption at St Luke’s General Hospital later this month after the health service was served with a new 24-hour strike notice. SIPTU, the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union has notified the Health Services Executive of a national day of strike action planned for Thursday, June 20. St […]
SUPPORT staff at St Luke’s General Hospital – including porters, cleaners, healthcare professionals and security personnel – will be balloted for strike action next strike. The move comes after the country’s largest trade union announced plans to ballot 17,000 hospital support staff in a new dispute over the implementation of pay rises. St Luke’s is […]
HOSPITAL services in Kilkenny will resume as normal this morning after a dramatic eleventh-hour breakthrough in talks put the brakes on a three-day national nurses’ strike. Nurses in Kilkenny were due to return to the picket line outside St Luke’s General Hospital and Kilcreene hospital from this morning, which threatened to cripple patient services. However, […]