Search
23 Oct 2025
Search
23 Oct 2025
Please allow ads as they help fund our trusted local news content.
Kindly add us to your ad blocker whitelist.
If you want further access to Ireland's best local journalism, consider contributing and/or subscribing to our free daily Newsletter .
Support our mission and join our community now.
To continue reading this article, you can subscribe for as little as €0.50 per week which will also give you access to all of our premium content and archived articles!
Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day.
Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism!
Protesters marching down Henry Street in Limerick city against the conditions at UHL on January 21, 2023
“IF IT MEANS marching every week, we’re prepared to do that,” a passionate Mike Daly said following the announcement of a second UHL Protest to be organised this year.
The previous UHL Protest held in January was organised by Mr Daly and saw 11,000 people take to the streets of Limerick city centre against the conditions at UHL.
The plan for the upcoming protest is to have marchers start at the Crescent Shopping Centre and march all the way out to UHL rather than congregate in Arthur’s Quay Park like the previous demonstration.
Mr Daly said that the upcoming protest has been planned as the government promised the partial reopening of Ennis and Nenagh A&Es but that promise has not been fulfilled.
“The figures out there [in UHL] are still rocketing with 102 people on trolleys yesterday (Wednesday),” Mr Daly said.
“There’s nothing changing and as well as that, Leo Varadkar gave two contradictory stories, one to Mid-West Hospital Campaign (MWHC) about the possibility of reopening the A&Es and one to the media on the same day.
“They’re playing games and they took no notice of the 11,000 that came out the first time,” Mr Daly said.
Emotional and powerful speeches about personal experiences regarding overcrowding at UHL were shared at the previous protest.
According to the Protest of UHL Limerick Facebook page the upcoming protest “won’t be a big fanfare like last time, probably no bands, no big speeches afterwards, just a mass of people in town marching and congregating at UHL.”
Mr Daly believes “in order to get something done, you have to commit to something”.
“We have to push them over the line with this now because the government are ignoring the 11,000.
“If it means we have to go to the hospital doors every week on a weekly protest, well it’s all down to the people of Limerick now if they want to get behind that and show that we want the A&Es opened,” Mr Daly added.
Starting from Saturday, March 25, weekly protests against the current conditions at UHL will be organised.
Subscribe or register today to discover more from DonegalLive.ie
Buy the e-paper of the Donegal Democrat, Donegal People's Press, Donegal Post and Inish Times here for instant access to Donegal's premier news titles.
Keep up with the latest news from Donegal with our daily newsletter featuring the most important stories of the day delivered to your inbox every evening at 5pm.
This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.
