The Impact trade union says progress in talks at Letterkenny General Hospital has been scuppered after management changed the goalposts.

The union says management has consistently sought pay savings of €390,000 to year end, and on that basis, the unions were close to a deal which ultimately would have led to the protection of jobs and services.

However, it now transpires the HSE are looking for pay savings of €1.2 million, three times the original figure.

This, according to Impact’s Richie Carrothers has scuppered any chance of a local deal in Letterkenny…….