‘I even took work when my baby was 12 weeks old, during maternity leave, just to make ends meet’ – are Irish nurses underpaid? Niamh O’Shea arrives on the ward before dawn, co-ordinating patient care, guiding junior staff and managing limited resources, shouldering all the responsibilities of a clinical nurse manager 2, but w...

In the first piece of my new series on pay in Ireland, I look at the hidden crisis in nursing — burnout, agency reliance, emigration and a system at breaking point.
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