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PICTURES - Laois nurses on the Portlaoise picket line strike out for better pay

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Leinster Express Reporter

30 Jan 2019

Nurses in Laois took to the picket lines in Portlaoise today as part of the Irish Nursing and Midwives Organisation 24-hour strike.

Nurses stopped work at the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise and the St Fintan's Hospital campus as part of the campaign for better pay to attract more nursing graduates to take up jobs in Ireland.

Read also: WATCH NURSES ON THE PORTLAOISE PICKET

Photographer Luke Wynne went along to the two picket lines where hundreds of nurse were on the march.

Read also: WORDS FROM THE PORTLAOISE PICKET

INMO members are due to strike again next week while Psychiatric Nurses Association are to mount industrial action on Thursday, January 31.

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