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A Ballinasloe teenager who collapsed after snorting a substance he believed was cocaine was rushed to hospital on the boot of a garda car, the Dublin City Coronor’s Court heard.

A 71-year-old retired farmer, who had beaten the odds by surviving major surgery, unexpectedly died from asphyxiation when a tracheostomy tube, which had been inserted in his throat to help him breathe, became dislodged after nurses at NUIG turned him on his side for a wash, an inquest in to his death heard last Thursday.

Members of the Irish Nurses Organisation at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe held a lunchtime protest outside the facility on Tuesday over what the union claims is the “wrongful suspension” of two long serving senior nurse managers.

Industrial action was lifted at Portiuncula Hospital earlier this week following agreement between the nursing union, the Irish Nurses’ Organisation, and the HSE West.

The decision by a consultant psychiatrist at St Loman’s hospital to discharge a patient and recommend that she be sent to Mountjoy Prison has been criticised in Mullingar District Court by Judge John Neilan.

The HSE warned staff at Portiuncula Hospital this week that services will be curtailed and jobs put at risk if industrial action threatened by the Irish Nurses Organisation goes ahead.

A spokesperson for the local branch of the Irish Nurses Organisation has accused the HSE of “scaremongering” following its warning this week that services would be curtailed and jobs put at risk if industrial action at Portiuncula was to go ahead.

In a move to highlight the growing dispute between senior nurse managers and the HSE, staff at Portiuncula Hospital, Ballinasloe staged another lunchtime protest yesterday (Thursday).

The HSE is calling on the Irish Nurses Organisation to withdraw a motion of no confidence in senior management at Portiuncula Hospital, following what they are calling the ‘breakdown’ of Labour Relation Commission talks on Wednesday.