More than 8,000 people marched in Roscommon town last Saturday to highlight concerns over the closure of the county hospital. Protestors gathered at Dr Hyde Park GAA grounds at 11am and then marched to the nearby hospital where they held hands and formed a human chain around the building.
The protestors then marched from the hospital to the town centre in Roscommon for a rally.
The Hospital Action Committee said it would run a general election candidate if it was necessary to save the hospital's services.

Air Traffic Controllers took industrial action yesterday after 15 controllers
were taken off the pay-roll by the employers, the Irish Aviation
Authority, for following union policy and refusing to operate new work practices
pending a LRC hearing.

The retirement of Peter McLoone as general secretary of
IMPACT marks the end of an era for the trade union movement.