News from Ireland:Irish Nurses Strike for Better Pay

Hospitals in Ireland came to a standstill in late October when the country’s 28,000 nurses started strike action over a long-running pay dispute. Despite last minute talks between union representatives and the government, the industrial action went ahead as scheduled, making it the first time in the history of the State that nurses had gone on strike. A spokeswoman for the Irish Nursing Organization said on an Irish radio program that the strike would continue for as long as it took the government to concede on pay demands.