Warnock calls for recently trained doctors & nurses to remain in Ireland
A Leitrim Councillor is calling on the Minister for Health to immediately improve training conditions for trainee nurses and doctors. Cllr Justin Warnock says that with almost 1 million people currently on waiting lists for hospital care, Ireland cannot afford to allow the drain of recently qualified and doctors…
Donegal’s Pearse Doherty calls for construction sites, factories and call centres to close
A Donegal TD has joined calls made to the government today for the closure of all building sites and for construction workers to return home. The Unite Trade Union has written to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar calling for all building sites in Ireland to close immediately. Its members are extremely concerned…
Best trained GPs in the world leaving
Some of the best-trained GPs in the world are leaving Ireland in droves, a development that could result in some rural areas in Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim being left without a local doctor in the coming years. That’s according to Dr Padraig McGarry, chairman of the Irish Medical Ordanisation’s GP…