Student nurses in expenses protest
Student nurses at a hospital in Co Louth are to protest today in a row over travel expenses.
Forty members of the INO in learning disability nursing will confine themselves to the library of St Mary's Hospital in Drumcar.
They are angry at not being paid a weekly €88 travel and living allowance, incurred during training.
INO Industrial Relations officer Patsy Doyle says the St John of God order, which runs the hospital, should treat its trainees on a par with qualified staff.
"We have been in negotiations with management at St John of God, but they are just not listening," she said.
"It just doesn't make sense, our students cannot survive on grants out there, they are trying to fulfill their educational requirements and have to work at the weekend to go to college."
