Huge protest to take place in Tipperary next month over the use of use of new care unit

Opposition to plans to use the new state-of-the-art care home in Nenagh as a step-down facility for University Hospital Limerick will take to the streets in May.

Shock waves were caused in the town last month when the HSE announced that the vacant new turnkey community nursing unit, situated adjacent to the hospital at Tyone, was going to cater for patient overflows from UHL instead of being used for the purpose for which it was originally built, as an urgently needed community nursing unit to serve the locality.

The decision by the HSE will mean that the expected transfer of residents from St Conlon’s Care Home in the town will not be going ahead for the foreseeable future.

The protest March on Saturday, May 11, will commence at 2.30 pm at the old St Conlon’s home at Church Road.

It will proceed down Church Road towards the cinema, then turn right down Pearse Street and on to the Market Cross. From there, it will take a left turn and proceed out to Tyone to the new home  beside Nenagh hospital.

Among those leading the protest will be wheelchair bound residents from the old Saint Conlon’s home.