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Nurses protest in Galway over working week
Dozens of nurses staged a lunchtime protest at University Hospital Galway yesterday to highlight that an agreed shorter working week had not been introduced. The nurses say a 37 and a half-hour week was agreed but that 1,500 nurses at the hospital and Merlin Park hospital on the east of the city were still doing 39-hour weeks.
"The new working hours have been introduced around the country but for some reason that has not happened here," said a spokesperson for the Irish Nurses' Organisation.
Nurses said that hospital services were not disrupted during yesterday's demonstration. The protest took place at the main entrance to University Hospital Galway.
"The failure of local and regional management to implement this entitlement is causing anger and frustration," added the nurses' spokesperson.
Man arrested over road death
A 19-year-old man was arrested yesterday by gardaí investigating the road-death of 17-year-old schoolgirl Ann Kerrigan, from Towneymoyle, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim. She was a front-seat passenger in a car that overturned in the early hours of June 14th at Brackery Beg near Manorhamilton.
Ms Kerrrigan , the youngest of a family of five, was a fourth-year student at St Care's Comprehensive School Manorhamilton. She died in Sligo General Hospital several hours after the incident.
River search for body
A team of Coast Guard personnel continued their search of the river Bandon in Co Cork yesterday after they received reports of the sighting of a body in the river.
Gardaí were contacted separately by two members of the public yesterday morning who claimed to have seen the body of a man face down in the water under a bridge near the old post office in Bandon.
Gardaí made an appeal to individuals who may have information to come forward. They have not received any reports of missing persons in the area in recent months.
Concert for civil rights anniversary
Andy Irvine will head the line-up at a concert of protest songs in Dublin's Liberty Hall at 7.30pm on Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. The concert will also mark the founding of the Dublin Housing Action Committee in 1968.
Other artists taking part include Seán Keane, the Sands Family and Karan Casey. Tickets at €15 can be booked at www.centralticketbureau.com. A public meeting will be held in Liberty Hall, also on Thursday, at 8pm on the theme "Civil Rights Then and Now".
