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A full hearing of The Minister for
the Labor Court to try to Wreckage Of WW2 Health has said he will con- IRISH
resolve the health workers sider options that would
row is underway. P-38 Lightning allow hundreds of women
A three-day strike by access to the Cervical EXAMINER
10,000 support staff at Check Tribunal after they
hospitals and healthcare Excavated In Monaghan were previously denied. |
facilities was defered this The tribunal is available
CervicalCheck
week after the Labor to the support group July
patient
Court intervened in the 221+ and women who 3rd,
dispute over pay. consented to participate in
Siptu’s Paul Bell said the current RCOG (Royal 2019
that he hopes the court College of Obstetricians
will make an acceptable and Gynaecologists)
recommendation. review of cervical screen-
“The mood is that we ing.
are in here to fight for Around 2,000 women
pay justice for our mem- who were on the national
bers,” said Mr Bell. caner registry were offered
“We believe that the the audit review.
Labor Court have a mas- Minister for Health
sive role to play in help- Simon Harris told the Joint
ing us to reach a resolu- Health Committee that
tion to a very serious dis- around 63% of these
pute. women consented. the
Under
“We look forward to he first-ever licensed exca- Rundall intends to visit Ireland remains of Spitfire P8074 flown
putting all of the issues of vation of a Second World to see the remnants of her by US Eagle pilot Bud Wolfe. CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill,
these women have access
concern for our members TWar US fighter plane in father’s plane. “The City of Derry Airport, to the tribunal, however,
to the court for considera- Ireland has taken place in a Co Irish Defense Forces person- which was this aircraft’s former the women who did not
tion.” C Monaghanfield. nel recovered most of the base, is also delighted to be able participate in the RCOG
A team including a Second wreckage in 1942. to display a range of recovered review do not have access
A new clean-up initia- World War aviation historian, But, licensed ground-pene- artifacts.” to the tribunal as it is based
tive which involves volun- Queen’s University Belfast sur- trating radar surveys undertak- Dig organizer and aviation on a finding of “discor-
teers kayaking down the veyors and pupils from Foyle en by the project team along historian Jonny McNee said the dance.”
River Liffey to pick up College in Derry and Ballybay with both schools in early 2019 pupils were very eager to par- The Bill is to provide for
rubbish has been Community College in Co revealed that not all the aircraft ticipate in the dig and find out the establishment of an
launched. Monaghan, working in con- was recovered by the military. what lied buried in the field. independent statutory tri-
GreenKayak, a Danish junction with Monaghan The team were granted the “The opportunity for the bunal to deal with the
non-governmental organ- County Museum, retrieved the necessary archaeological licens- pupils to participate in these CervicalCheck claims.
es by the Department of
digs and talk to the family of the
remaining parts of a twin-
ization (NGO) founded in engined fighter on Saturday. Culture, Heritage and the pilot and the wider P38 family Mr Harris told the com-
2017 by Tobias Weber- The P38 Lightning aircraft Gaeltacht National in the US is something that mittee that the deadline for
Andersen, operates a free crashed into a stony field near Monuments Unit and the can’t be learned from books,” participation in the RCOG
review has passed and that
service where volunteers Castleblayney on the National Museum of Ireland to he said. he has not found another
sign up to kayak along December 17 1942. legally undertake the dig and Mr McNee said the pupils mechanism or process.
the river in exchange for The US pilot, Second preserve the recovered were very media savvy and had Fianna Fáil’s Stephen
picking up litter. Lieutenant Milo E Rundall, remains. been quick to use social media Donnelly said that the
The initiative launched aged 22, from Iowa, baled out Liam Bradley, curator of to get in contact with various women who did not con-
its first Irish venture, in successfully after he got lost on Monaghan County Museum, interested P38 groups across sent to the review did so
partnership with Dublin’s an evening flight from said: “This excavation will be the US. without knowing they were
City Kayaking, on Langford Lodge, on the eastern the final project in our three- He added that the pilot’s losing access to the tribu-
Tuesday. It aims to collect shores of Lough Neagh in year examination of the impact family had been traced to US nal.
plastic from the River Northern Ireland. of the Second World War on and they had managed to get in Mr Donnelly, the party’s
Liffey before it reaches He was returning home to our border county.” touch with the pilot’s daughter, health spokesman, added:
the Irish Sea. his base with the 82nd Fighter “The retrieved items will be Merryl Rundall. “We don’t know how
Each kayak is fitted Group, who were based at the preserved and put on display as Mr McNee said she was very many would have [said]
with a bin and tools for US Army Air Station 344, part of our nationally acclaimed excited about the excavation yes but it’s reasonable to
Monaghan
exhibition
The
Eglinton in Derry, now the City
and was considering atrip to
grabbing plastic bobbing of Derry Airport. Spitfire – Life On The Border Ireland later in the year to see think it’s more than zero.
“I imagine that if some
on the water’s surface. He later took part in the With A World At War which the Monaghan exhibition and of those women were told
Each bin is weighed after Allies North Africa campaign runs in the museum until the her father’s former base in that in order for you to
docking, and the waste is against Germany but was shot end of 2019”. Derry. have access to the tribunal
recycled. down and taken prisoner in “Other parts of the P38 Ms Rundall said: “I’m get- you have to take part in the
Volunteers must then January 1943. wreckage will be put on display ting my passport renewed. RCOG review, it is
share their experience on After the war he returned to in Derry City and Strabane “This dig is pretty cool – my inevitable there is a num-
social media to promote his hometown in Iowa and died District Council’s Tower father would say ‘I just did my ber of those who would say
the initiative. C in 2006. Museum which already proud- job; why would anyone care yes.” C
Now his daughter Merryl ly hosts the 2011 recovered about my old P38?”” C

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