Families ‘deserve answers’
Home care withdrawn due to staff shortage
Especially those living alone
When I was small, one of the most exciting events of the year was going to the Fleadh Cheoil with my dad, Séamus. Thousands of people thronged the streets in Buncrana or Listowel or Kilkenny during those golden, halcyon days of traditional music, and most of them seemed to know him. It would take an […]
A new Covid regulation has been introduced requiring people to present vaccine certs if they want to enter nursing homes – a policy with no basis in science, which may actually hurt more people than it protects. The measure was described by Tadhg Daly of Nursing Homes Ireland in the Independent.ie: “The new guidelines will […]
ASI providing essential help
They are skirting the rules to drug residents into submission
There have been reports of an elderly woman visiting Deansgrange cemetery when she was accosted and robbed by five men. According to DublinLive, the woman had her possessions “forcibly” taken from her on Tuesday afternoon, whereupon the “suspected offenders are believed to have fled the scene in a vehicle following the incident.” Some of her […]
The fear-sowing propaganda has worked fiendishly well.
What does it say about a country when its people are forced to go to the High Court to seek an inquiry into the appalling mismanagement of state support for nursing homes during the Covid crisis? The horrendous consequences for elderly people from the State’s inexplicable and unaccountable inactions are stark and harrowing. More than 2,000 […]
The Oireachtas Justice Committee examining a bill proposing to legalise Assisted Suicide has said the Bill has “serious technical issues” and that it lacked safeguards to protect against undue pressure being put on vulnerable people to avail of assisted dying. They also said that the “serious flaws” and the fact that the “gravity of such […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has read what he described as a “damning document” into the Dáil record in which he says it appears that the Government moved elderly patients “wholesale out of hospital beds and crammed them into nursing homes just as Covid hit the country”. Over 2,000 people died with Covid in Nursing Homes, but commentators […]