Events
Grass Roots Unite conference
RECLAIM THE TRADE UNIONS
Fight the Government Cuts
Unite Hall, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1
SESSIONS ON:
Fighting pay cuts;
Stopping cuts in services - health, education, social welfare;
Action on unemployment and defending pensions;
How we can make bankers and speculators pays for the crisis
Protest this Saturday 27th June, 2pm
at the main entrance to the hospital in Crumlin
Despite claims by government that no further ward and theatre closures will happen this summer, a motion to guarantee the €9.6 million needed to keep the hospital open was defeated in the Dail this week. There are no guarantees that the planned cuts will not be implemented later in the year.
The government has called a second Lisbon Treaty referendum for October. This referendum will cost millions, millions that could be used to save the Children's Hospital. The Irish people have already said NO to LISBON, to call a second referendum for a treaty that is the same as the one we already voted on, is to deny us our democratic right to say NO. This government does not listen to the people!
During the recent protest at Cherryochard Hospital , senior management revealed that they couldn’t hire the staff needed to cover the annual and maternity leave because of the HSE's embargo on the hiring of staff. Nurses who are taking annual leave and maternity leave are not being replaced. The HSE embargo on recruitment is once again seriously hurting patients receiving respite care and their families.
Cherry-orchard management have told Carers that all roll-over patients would receive respite care in private nursing homes instead and the Beech Unit would close.
We need to take this campaign to the HSE and force them into changing their position regarding staffing levels at Cherryorchard Hosptial. We are calling on everyone to meet outside the HSE Headquarters ( the Old Steeven’s Hospital opposite Heuston Station) on Thursday 6th July 2009 @12.00.
For more information contact Brid Smith 087-9090-166
Takes place in Ballyfermot Civic Centre on Tuesday the 14th July at 8pm to discuss what should happen next in the Campaign to Save Respite Care at Cherryorchard Hospital.
OBAMA’S AFGHAN WAR:
Should foreign troops withdraw?
PUBLIC DEBATE
Wed 15 July 2009 7pm
Davenport Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin
Speakers: Robert Faucher (Chargé d’Affaires, US Embassy), Jonathan
Neale (US Author), Sahar Saba (Revolutionary Association of Women of
Afghanistan).
Chairman: Deaglán de Bréadún.
Irish Anti-War Movement
