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New Year: Same Old Healthcare Crisis

January 16, 2023 Billy Flynn

At the start of January, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) reported that there were 931 patients waiting on trolleys in Ireland’s hospitals. A consultant in Emergency Medicine for Beaumont Hospital Dublin Dr Peadar […]

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Health and social care workers in NIPSA show the way as they organise to win a 15 percent pay uplift

August 26, 2020 Maurice Pollock

Northern Ireland’s largest trade union, NIPSA, is seeking a poverty busting pay increase of £3k or 15%, whichever is highest, for each of its health service members.  NIPSA will feed its position into the health […]

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Socialism needed to end the profits of Big Pharma trumping public health

July 5, 2020 Cllr Donal O'Cofaigh

The US-based, private sector big pharma giant Gilead is set to charge $3,120 for a basic five-day course of Remdesivir. The drug is believed to be a potent life-saving drug for Covid-19. Generously they  offered […]

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Ireland – South

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    June 17, 2026
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    May 5, 2026
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