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Article: Buses, trains and operating rooms grind to halt in protests against Irish government
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- February 16, 2004
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SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
02-16-2004
Dateline: DUBLIN, Ireland
Bus and train services ground to a halt Monday across Ireland as unions protested against government plans to break up the state-owned transportation company and promote competition from private companies.
Doctors, meanwhile, refused to perform about 100 non-emergency operations in their own protest against government changes to their malpractice insurance. They threatened to snarl a schedule of 40,000 awaiting taxpayer-funded operations and to perform only emergency operations starting next Monday.
Ireland has suffered a spate of strikes since 2001, when the country's Celtic Tiger economic boom ...
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