Pictured (L to R): Michael Hayes, PNA; Somy Thomas, Clinical Nurse Specialist and NMBI Board member; Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride, NMBI President; Máire Devine, Sinn Féin TD; Pat Cullen, Sinn Féin MP for Fermanagh and Tyrone and Tony Fitzpatrick, INMO

On 14 May, our President, Dr Louise Kavanagh McBride along with a broad group of nursing representatives was welcomed to Leinster House to mark International Nurses Day.

The event was organised by Máire Devine, Sinn Féin TD for Dublin South Central and a registered psychiatric nurse.

Speakers included Pat Cullen, Sinn Féin MP for Fermanagh and Tyrone, and former General Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal College of Nursing; Michael Hayes, Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) and Tony Fitzpatrick, Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).