Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the first day of the nursing strike - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Nurses across England, Ireland, and Wales have started striking today after ministers refused to discuss boosting their pay. 

The nurses will still provide life-saving treatments and urgent care services, but less essential routine surgeries have been disrupted by the strikes. Thousands of operations and outpatient surgeries have been cancelled since the beginning of the strike.

The nurses' union is also threatening longer strikes over 2023 if pay discussions don't open up again.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the public is likely to support these strikes in the short-term, but if the strikes go on for a substantial amount of time, positive public opinion will decrease.

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