Health Service Archives - Solidarity (Ireland)

Full support to striking Ambulance workers

Text of Solidarity leaflet on today’s strike by ambulance workers Solidarity and our TD Ruth Coppinger stand fully behind today’s industrial action by ambulance workers in both SIPTU and UNITE—it is a disgrace that the HSE have waited six years for a

May 12, 2026

News & Analysis

HSE recruitment freeze rubs salt in the wound–Solidarity with HSE staff

Fórsa members are engaging in a campaign against the moratorium on recruitment from the HSE. We send our full support to staff staging lunchtime protests today and tomorrow. This action by Fórsa can be the start of a campaign to defend and

Dec 6, 2023

News & Analysis

Government disdain for migrant nurses is a scandal

By Mick Barry TD More than 300 Indian migrant workers attended a Zoom meeting organised by Migrant Nurses Ireland (MNI) and attended by myself and fellow Socialist Party public rep Ruth Coppinger on 28 March. Varghese Joy of MNI explained that the

Apr 1, 2023

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 – only, this time, it’s worse. A record 931 and 838 people were lying on trollies, waiting on a hospital bed, on 3rd and 4th

Jan 5, 2023

News & Analysis·The North

North: Nurses ballot for strike action

Members of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN) in the North and Britain are balloting for strike action over pay. They will soon be joined by other unions balloting their members in health. The Socialist spoke to Socialist Party member and RCN

Nov 4, 2022

News & Analysis·Workplace News

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 take industrial action. The inhuman and unrealistic hours they are demanded to work lie at the root of it. According to the Non-Consultant Hospital

Jun 1, 2022

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

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 rights, and more generally for a progressive, secular Ireland. Building on the Marriage Equality vote that affirmed LGBTQ rights, it represented a watershed rejection

May 13, 2022

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 in essence sums up the scandal surrounding Michael Cullen, CEO of the for-profit Beacon hospital, and the vaccinations he arranged for 20 teachers from

Apr 1, 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·News & Analysis

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 Covid-19 measures, calling for a complete re-opening of society (and crucially for him the airlines!) once over 50s have been vaccinated. Should his demands

Feb 14, 2021

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 world. 31.8% of total cases of Covid-19 are associated with healthcare workers, while 1 in 10 of cases are directly associated with nurses or

Jul 2, 2020

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