NI nurses are striking because we have no other option… we can’t accept the unsafe conditions our patients are in

When Northern Ireland nurses took strike action in 2019 and 2020, we believed this would be a once in a lifetime experience. Little did we imagine that, just three years later, we would once again be taking to the picket lines over fair pay, amid a backdrop of political crisis and a health and social care system at — or possibly beyond — the point of collapse.