Royal College of Nursing

Pat Cullen on the podium at her acceptance speech

Pat Cullen wins Fermanagh and South Tyrone for SF

Former General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Pat Cullen, outside the High Court in central London in April 2023 in support of nurses bringing a challenge over planned strike action by the RCN in a long-running dispute with the government over pay. Ms Cullen is now the Sinn Fein candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone in the upcoming general election. If elected, Ms Cullen won't take her seat, in line with republican tradition. Picture: James Manning/PA Archive/PA Images

DUP: Royal College of Nursing needs to address Cullen questions

Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill, Pat Cullen and Mary Lou McDonald. The IRA was responsible for almost 90% of Troubles deaths in Fermanagh, so with Ms Cullen hoping to be MP there she should say whether such violence was justified. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Ben Lowry: IRA toll in Fermanagh is reason for Cullen to give view on violence

Screenshot of an article which disappeared from the Royal College of Nursing website, showing Sinn Fein election candidate Pat Cullen smiling as she reads a letter from Buckingham Palace.

Pat ​Cullen's praise for King Charles disappears from RCN website

First Minister Michelle O'Neill, former RCN General Secretary and Sinn Fein's candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone Pat Cullen and Sinn Fein's President Mary Lou McDonald at the party's Westminster candidates launch. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

​RCN risks ‘tarnishing its reputation’ – Allister

Former RCN general secretary Pat Cullen is Sinn Fein’s Westminster general election candidate for Fermanagh & South Tyrone. She has repeatedly declined to offer her condemnation of IRA murders of civilians, including nursing staff

Letter: Why did Pat Cullen allow Sinn Fein to stain her reputation?

Morning View

Editorial: Royal College of Nursing is just ignoring our queries about terror

Morning View

Editorial: Cullen shamed by refusal to condemn IRA Poppy Day massacre

Alberta Quinton, mother of Aileen, a retired nurse murdered by the IRA in the IRA Poppy Day massacre in 1987, alongside a student nurse, and another retired nurse and her retired ambulance driver husband, and eight other people

Aileen Quinton: I call those who murdered my mother Sinn Fein/IRA

Former General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing Pat Cullen. Tom Elliott said: “It would be good to hear from Ms Cullen on her view if the IRA campaign of murder and destruction was right and supported by her?” Photo: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

Pat Cullen is urged to be clear about her view on the IRA's campaign of violence

Pat Cullen, then General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, outside court in London last year, as the government challenged strike action by nurses. Cullen revealed her view last year that “the only hope for the NHS is reunification” of Ireland

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Cullen ducks queries about quitting nursing to stand for SF

The aftermath of the IRA Poppy Day massacre in Enniskillen in 1987, in which a student nurse, Marie Wilson, was murdered

Pat Cullen candidacy raises query: was there alternative to IRA murder of nurse?

Letters to editor

Letter: Media fails to ask Cullen about move from nursing to SF candidate

Pat Cullen

Surprise SF candidate Pat Cullen's previous reported 'Irish unity' comments

Pat Cullen

Former nursing boss Pat Cullen set to stand for SF in Fermanagh and South Tyrone

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Royal College of Nursing cadets celebrate success in Banbridge ceremony

The Royal College of Nursing has celebrated the achievements of its Northern Ireland cadets in style.

Chloe Gibson

Health workers were offered a 5% increase and a lump sum of £1,505.

Royal College of Nursing members vote to reject pay offer

Nurses protesting over wages and working conditions at Stormont last year. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have announced strike action on January 18, joining other unions in a day of action

Largest nursing union in Northern Ireland joins day of industrial action

Margaret Graham, who started her nursing career in 1971 at the Royal Victoria Hospital, reflects on her career as the NHS celebrates it's 75th anniversary

Retired NI nurse looks back on her NHS career

Nurses in Northern Ireland will later hold a demonstration at Stormont to highlight the "escalating crisis" in the health service. It comes as voters across Northern Ireland head to the polls for the council elections.

Nurses to demonstrate at Stormont over ‘escalating crisis’ in NI health service

Rita Devlin, NI director of the Royal College of Nursing

Cut in NI student nursing places 'will do irreparable damage to patient care'

Ben Lowry on Nolan Live on BBC One on Wednesday May 10 2023 discussing the budget cuts amid an absence of Stormont. Ben said that he was the only one of five commentators on the programme to put the cuts in the context of the longstanding failure of MLAs to take difficult decisions. The host is Stephen Nolan, with other guests, from left, Alison Morris of the Belfast Telegraph, the teacher Diane Dawson and the teaching union leader Graham Gault. Screengrab from the BBC

Ben Lowry: BBC should cover why cuts might have to happen, not just their impact

NHS

Health unions back new pay offer for millions of NHS staff

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

Strike action was taken last week over the issue, but demonstrations planned for Monday were called off after talks were set up in Belfast with Mr Heaton-Harris.

Talks between NI health unions and Chris Heaton-Harris end without resolution

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Striking nurses hold signs at a picket line outside University College Hospital in London on January 19, 2023.

Government recommends 3.5% pay increase to nurses and other workers

The government has recommended offering millions of public sector workers including NHS staff, teachers and police officers a pay increase of 3.5% - just over a third of the inflation rate.

Sophie Wills

Striking Unison members in Northern Ireland with a banner urging Secretary of State Chris Heaton-Harris to 'pay up'

Heaton-Harris continues to point health unions to Stormont

More than 25,000 healthcare staff in Northern Ireland have held a one-day strike as part of a pay dispute.

NI health service rocked by biggest strike yet

Hospital

Health leaders warn again of scale of ongoing crisis and request SoS meeting

Ambulance strike dates 2023: Unite announce new strikes taking total to ten across England and Wales

Ambulance strike dates as Unite announce fresh action

ADOBE STOCK Blurred figures of people with medical uniforms in hospital corridor

Northern Ireland midwives to vote on strike action

EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18 File photo dated 20/12/2022 of members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, central London. Continued strike action plus winter pressures are jeopardising the ability of the NHS to break out of a "vicious cycle", a health leader has said. Issue date: Wednesday January 18, 2023.

Health service in ‘vicious cycle’ of strikes and winter pressures

Pat Cullen

Northern Ireland strikes: Decision by RCN due in 'coming weeks'

Love Island series 9 contestant Olivia Hawkins was a stunt double in the show Brassic which has many links to Chorley.

Meet the Love Island contestant who worked on No Time to Die

Nurses and supporters gather outside University College Hospital before marching to Downing Street after a day of strike action on December 20 2022 in London. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Nurses’ strike in February will be ‘twice as big’, union leaders warn

Royal College of Nursing (RCN) general secretary Pat Cullen speaks to the media as she leaves BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

‘Chink of optimism’ with Sunak nurses’ union talks

Pat Cullen

Nursing union boss has ‘chink of optimism’ over Sunak’s ‘pay shift’

Carmel Gates, NIPSA General Secretary, at a picket line during a 24 hour strike outside the Nightingale hospital at the Belfast City hospitals, Northern Ireland. Monday December 12, 2022.

New strike dates for some NI health workers revealed

Nicola Bailey pictured at the Belfast Trust offices on College Street in Belfast city centre

Pro-life group queries OBE for Belfast abortion provider in New Year Honours

Accident and Emergency department

Emergency department nurse expresses concern at ‘relentless’ conditions

Nurses and NHS staff pictured at the Ulster Hospital, in Dundonald

Northern Ireland nurses on strike over pay and conditions - 17 images

Nurses Sarah Donnelly (left) and Nicola Joyce on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, as nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland take industrial action over pay. Picture date: Tuesday December 20, 2022.

Hundreds of appointments hit as nurses take to picket lines in Northern Ireland

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 15th December 2022Nurses and NHS staff pictured at the Ulster Hospital, in Dundonald, where they are taking part in the UK wide strike action. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

NI nurses set to return to picket lines today

Nurses on the picket line at Antrim Area Hospital on Thursday

Nurses threaten fresh strikes in January if ministers fail to meet new deadline

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Striking nurses in Leeds. Nurses are admired but striking isn’t necessarily justified

Ben Lowry: There are arguments against strikes but we don’t hear them

Mental health nurse Michael Rooney joins members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside Belfast City Hospital in Belfast

Striking nurses: We have been left with no choice

Nurses and NHS staff pictured at the City Hospital, south Belfast, have been taking part in the UK wide strike action.

‘Already fragile’ health service will be ‘further impaired’ by strike

Royal Victoria Hospital

NI A&E like a 'disaster film', says leading nurse

Health sector workers from three of Northern Ireland's biggest unions are taking part in a strike on Monday, in a dispute over pay and conditions.

Health workers dispute: Action short of strike to continue

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 11th December 2022Nurses and NHS staff pictured at the City Hospital, south Belfast, where they are taking part in the UK wide strike action. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Thousands in NI miss appointments with more strikes on the way

Summary of all strikes taking place in Sussex this month (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Nursing strikes to go ahead this week after pay talks fail

Press Eye - Belfast - Northern Ireland - 11th December 2022Nurses and NHS staff pictured at the Royal Hospital, west Belfast, where they are taking part in the UK wide strike action. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Health workers defiant on picket lines during 24 hour strike in Northern Ireland

Pat Cullen, the head of the Royal College of Nurses (RCN)

Government to ignore nurses' offer to 'press pause' on strikes