Almost 40% of paramedics and other ambulance personnel in Donegal are striking today.
500 members of the Psychiatric Nurses Association walked off the job this morning in a row with the HSE over union recognition.
The HSE says engaging with yet another union will impair good industrial relations within the National Ambulance Service.
Local NASRA spokesperson Tina Martin has been speaking from the picket line at Letterkenny University Hospital:
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