Showing posts with label Irish Nurses Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish Nurses Union. Show all posts
Friday, January 10, 2014
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Irish Nurses - Irish dancing 1973
COHSE Journal February 1973
Irish Dancing
Dear Sir,
For the benefit of Irish staff in hospitals in the Balham, Tooting, Wandsworth and Mitcham areas, the Collins (could be Connolly) School of dancing every Sunday morning at St. Augustine's Hall, Broadwater Road, Tooting, London SW17. The centrally heated hall is just a few minutes walk from Tooting
Broadway Tube Station, and is convenient
Any staff who have children that would like to take up. the challenge of Irish dancing, may bring them along any Sunday morning at 11.30 to 1.30.
M. McGrath RMN
For the benefit of Irish staff in hospitals in the Balham, Tooting, Wandsworth and Mitcham areas, the Collins (could be Connolly) School of dancing every Sunday morning at St. Augustine's Hall, Broadwater Road, Tooting, London SW17. The centrally heated hall is just a few minutes walk from Tooting
Broadway Tube Station, and is convenient
Any staff who have children that would like to take up. the challenge of Irish dancing, may bring them along any Sunday morning at 11.30 to 1.30.
M. McGrath RMN
Registered Mental Nurse
Springfield Hospital
Tooting
London
SW17
Note:
This letter from an Irish nurse working at Springfield hospital, Tooting, South London to the COHSE journal highlights the links between Irish male nurses and mental hospital nursing in England and the scope of Irish cultural links of migrant workers in the 1970's (and also union involvement of irish nurses in England and in particular in COHSE, sometimes jokingly refered to at the time as "a male Irish charge nurse mafia"
Friday, February 18, 2011
Irish Student Nurses Fighting Back !
Student nurses warn of cut backlash
By: MARTIN WALL, Industry correspondent
February 16, 2011
The Irish Times
Over 3,000 student nurses and midwifes have taken part in a rally at the Department of Health in Dublin today in protest at Government plans to
phase-out and ultimately eliminate payments for their mandatory 36-week placement in hospitals.
Siptu nursing official Louise O'Reilly said that nurses would punish those who made the decision to introduce the cuts in the forthcoming general election.
Liam Dolan from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation urged student nurses to tell their TDs that they would not vote for them if they did not pledge to reverse the cuts.
Mr Dolan said that the unions would meet with Fian na Fáil on the issue tomorrow.
Des Kavanagh of the Psychiatric Nurses Association said the decision to make the cuts was a final act of betrayal by the former minister of health Mary Harney.
He said the Opposition parties should be clear and unambiguous in their support for student nurses and that "woolly soundbites are not acceptable."
Minister for Health Mary Coughlan last week has asked the secretary-general of her department to carry out a review of the decision to abolish student nurse payments from 2015.
It is understood the review will focus only on the plan to abolish completely the payments from 2015 and plans to reduce the level of payments made to student nurses and midwives over the coming years will remain in place.
The Government announced in late December that it planned to reduce and ultimately abolish payments made to fourth-year nurses and midwives in training during their mandatory 36-week placements in hospitals.
They are currently paid 80 per cent of the salary of a staff nurse during this period.
The Department of Health estimates the cuts will ultimately generated savings of €28 million.
About 3,500 student nurses and midwives took part in demonstrations at 13 hospitals around the country last Wednesday against the planned cuts as unions promised to make them a major issue in the general election.
Wednesday February 16 2011
Irish Independent
Angry student nurses have warned politicians they will be punished in the General Election unless plans to abolish their pay during ward placements are reversed.
Up to 3,000 protesters marched through Dublin and staged a rally at the Department of Health over proposals to phase out payments to fourth-year students working on wards during a nine-month internship.
Security staff padlocked the gates around Hawkins House and senior health chiefs quickly left for lunch before nurses and midwives arrived en masse to hand in a letter calling on the in-coming minister to reverse the plan.
Louise O'Reilly, Siptu's national nursing official, told noisy demonstrators the cuts were a new low for the Government.
"We will hold our politicians to account and shame those cowards who will not pledge to reverse those cuts," she said.
"We say no to slave labour and we will punish those on February 25 who try to introduce it."
Student nurses and midwives are currently paid 80pc of the salary of a staff nurse during their mandatory 36-week placements in hospitals.
Tanaiste Mary Coughlan has asked officials to carry out a review of a decision to reduce and ultimately abolish payments over the next four years.
Four-year-old Ella Dowd dressed in a nurses uniform to support her mother Tara and aunt Maria, both from Swords, north Dublin.
Tara, a second-year psychiatric nursing student at Trinity College, fears she could be forced to leave her course if her pay is cut in her final year.
The 26-year-old lone parent already studies, has placements in St Patrick's Hospital, works weekends for an agency and cares for her daughter.
"This would make a huge difference. I'd probably end up dropping out because I couldn't afford to run my home, Ella's creche and a childminder for weekends," she said.
Maria, 20, a third-year psychiatric nursing student, added: "Next year I will have my own patients and will be administering their medications.
"That is a huge responsibility for anyone to have. Intern doctors will still get paid, why are intern nurses getting cut?"
Union leaders from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA), and Siptu are holding talks with members of each political party, including Fianna Fail, for their stance on the cuts.
INMO general secretary, Liam Doran, warned his members and their families, who wield more than 200,000 votes, will be told the reply from each party before they go to the ballot boxes.
Fourth-year pre-registration nurses and midwives will also be balloted for a withdrawal of labour in early March if they do not secure a resolution.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Workhouse Dance at gun point
Made A Prisoner
Bawnboy Workhouse Master
Sinn Feinners Sunday dance The Bawnboy Sinn Fein Club showed its power on Sunday evening, when a body of men proceeded to the Workhouse in the village, and having made a prisoner of the Workhouse Master, held a dance in the boys schoolroom in the institution, contrary to a notice already given that the dance would not be permitted.
It appears that at a meeting of the Guardians held on the 8th inst, it was decided that permission be given to the local Sinn Feiners for the entertainment.
The decision of the Guardians having being communicated to the Local Government Board, the latter body wrote to the clerk of the Guardians was illegal and threatened an injunction in the superior courts.
The Master of the Workhouse, hearing this at once communicated with the secretary of the local Sinn Fein Club, stating that the dance would not be permitted.
Despite this an advance guard of the Republicans made their way to the office of the Master Mr P. McTeigue and imprisoned him there until the crowds for the dance, which numbered over 200 had assembled and taken possession of the boys schoolroom, when the prisoner was released
Tyrone Impartial Reporter 18th October 1917
NOTE
At Strabane Workhouse in February 1922.
Five or six masked (IRA) men entered the Workhouse and set fire to it in order to stop the local Dorset Regiment occupying it.
Bawnboy Workhouse Master
Sinn Feinners Sunday dance The Bawnboy Sinn Fein Club showed its power on Sunday evening, when a body of men proceeded to the Workhouse in the village, and having made a prisoner of the Workhouse Master, held a dance in the boys schoolroom in the institution, contrary to a notice already given that the dance would not be permitted.
It appears that at a meeting of the Guardians held on the 8th inst, it was decided that permission be given to the local Sinn Feiners for the entertainment.
The decision of the Guardians having being communicated to the Local Government Board, the latter body wrote to the clerk of the Guardians was illegal and threatened an injunction in the superior courts.
The Master of the Workhouse, hearing this at once communicated with the secretary of the local Sinn Fein Club, stating that the dance would not be permitted.
Despite this an advance guard of the Republicans made their way to the office of the Master Mr P. McTeigue and imprisoned him there until the crowds for the dance, which numbered over 200 had assembled and taken possession of the boys schoolroom, when the prisoner was released
Tyrone Impartial Reporter 18th October 1917
NOTE
At Strabane Workhouse in February 1922.
Five or six masked (IRA) men entered the Workhouse and set fire to it in order to stop the local Dorset Regiment occupying it.
8 Hour Day - Nurses 1920
15 May 1920
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EIGHT HOURS’ DAY IN DUBLIN.
The Corporation of Dublin, which makes grants to various hospitals in the city, has decided to make such grants conditional upon the establishment of an eight hours’day for nurses.
In this connection several medical contemporaries take exception to this decision on the ground that in the case of a nurse work and duty are not co-extensive, though no doubt she is liable to answer a bell or call at any moment.”
That may be the case with private nurses, but we have yet to meet the hospital nurse who spends “ much of her time on duty sitting down,” There is a very wrong conception prevalent of the way in which hospital nurses work, It is usually at full
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EIGHT HOURS’ DAY IN DUBLIN.
The Corporation of Dublin, which makes grants to various hospitals in the city, has decided to make such grants conditional upon the establishment of an eight hours’day for nurses.
In this connection several medical contemporaries take exception to this decision on the ground that in the case of a nurse work and duty are not co-extensive, though no doubt she is liable to answer a bell or call at any moment.”
That may be the case with private nurses, but we have yet to meet the hospital nurse who spends “ much of her time on duty sitting down,” There is a very wrong conception prevalent of the way in which hospital nurses work, It is usually at full
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Irish Nurses Union 1920
Irish Nurses Union
Honary Secretary: Miss Carson Rae
President: Miss E. Hazlett (Richmond)
Vice President: Miss Carre
Executive Miss, Huxley, Thornton, O'Flynn, Burkett, Haire, Reeves, Hughes, Keating, Haverly, Rhind, Blackmore, Downie, Bradburne, Crowther, Harrison, Chisholm, Harrison, Chisholm, McKinley, McGinley, Drew and Mrs Manning
Miss E Hazlett
Trained at Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwicke hospital, appointed Assistant Matron in 1912 and appointed Matron Richmond Hospital, Dublin 1918
NOTE
Later Irish Nurses Organisation
Honary Secretary: Miss Carson Rae
President: Miss E. Hazlett (Richmond)
Vice President: Miss Carre
Executive Miss, Huxley, Thornton, O'Flynn, Burkett, Haire, Reeves, Hughes, Keating, Haverly, Rhind, Blackmore, Downie, Bradburne, Crowther, Harrison, Chisholm, Harrison, Chisholm, McKinley, McGinley, Drew and Mrs Manning
Miss E Hazlett
Trained at Richmond, Whitworth and Hardwicke hospital, appointed Assistant Matron in 1912 and appointed Matron Richmond Hospital, Dublin 1918
NOTE
Later Irish Nurses Organisation
Nurses 8hr Day Dublin - 1920
NURSES EIGHT HOURS’ DAY IN DUBLIN.
The Corporation of Dublin, which makes grants to various hospitals in the city, has decided to make such grants conditional upon the establishment of an eight hours’day for nurses.
source
British Nursing Journal - 15th May 1920
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