The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has expressed sympathy and solidarity with colleagues in France after a nurse was fatally stabbed in her workplace.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has welcomed moves by Government to increase the maximum penalty for assaulting nurses, midwives and other frontline workers.

Industrial action in University Hospital Limerick’s Intensive Care Unit has been suspended following a proposal agreed between the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and UHL.

Nurses in the Intensive Care Unit in University Hospital Limerick will begin industrial action in the form of work-to-rule this morning.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has today (Friday) awarded its annual prizes to members who have made outstanding contributions to the union and its activities over the past year.

INMO President responds to Minister for Health