Monkstown Hospital, County Dublin is to close at the end of the month, and the staff are the first permanent health workers to lose their jobs in the present round of cutbacks.

Report shows Monkstown Hospital.

Nurses tending to patients in a hospital ward.

Interior of operating theatre.

To camera Charlie Bird.

Interview with Pauline Morrisey, Matron, on the closure of the hospital and the loss of jobs.

The reporter is Charlie Bird.

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