DCU News
Student nurses to protest over wages and working conditions
Figures released by the Lancet report and low wages for graduate nurses prompt student protests. Read more…
Graduate nurses recruitment scheme
Opinion
Sinead Kelly – Graduate nurses recruitment scheme
As a second year nursing student, I felt it is in my best interests and also in the interests of my colleagues to voice my opinions on the recent appalling proposition from the HSE to Read more…
Opinion
Fiona Dunne- Graduate nurses recruitment scheme
“Taking a scalpel to newly qualified nurse’s pay” As a first year nursing student and active Fianna Fail member, I must admit that upon hearing the details of the government’s new ‘nursing graduate scheme’ I Read more…
Opinion
Derek McKenna – Graduate nurses recruitment scheme
“Emigrate or work in a fast food outlet.” That is the extraordinary threat made to graduate nurses by Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly. It is aimed at those who do not wish to accept Read more…
Political
Ógra Fianna Fáil condemns graduate nursing recruitment scheme
Ógra Fianna Fáil has called on the government to rethink what it describes as a “deeply unfair graduate nursing recruitment scheme”. At a recent meeting of the Ógra Fianna Fáil National Council, members condemned the Read more…