Protests were also held in Dublin and Cork last week, while more are scheduled in the coming weeks.
Members of the Fórsa trade union working at St Luke's General Hospital in Kilkenny are staging a protest today.
It's one of a series of lunchtime demonstrations by members of Fórsa, the INMO and SIPTU - organised in response to the HSE's 'suppression of thousands of frontline health posts'.
Protests were also held in Dublin and Cork last week, while more are scheduled in the coming weeks.

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