As around 150 Ratoath locals gather to protest against a proposed asylum centre at Thornton Hall, local Councillor Gillian Toole says that people are concerned they’ll be forced to “compete” with new arrivals for access to GPs, A&E spaces and social housing.
“130,000 new medical card holders”
“Emergency”
Medical Council research
Consultation needed
That figure of 1024 is remarkably close to the figure of 1000 being used as part of the Life Institute’s current billboard campaign.
Staff deficit of between 40 and 60%
The abortion protesters usually behave impeccably, often in fact prayerfully
“You couldn’t make it up”, they say, when something ridiculous is reported in the media. As ridiculous government decisions go, one would struggle to find anything more ridiculous than the decision in 2018 to pay GP’s €450 per patient for early pregnancy abortions (requiring an average of 4 GP visits), at the same time as […]
It is quite incredible to read that sentence back, that the government of a developed country like Ireland kept dossiers on children with autism. It reads like something you would have expected to hear coming out of East Germany. RTÉ Investigates reported that the ‘secret dossiers’ were for use in legal cases. Shane Corr is […]
An eminent doctor appointed by Simon Harris to the Medical Council two years ago has resigned in protest at the government’s alleged “blunder” in regard to nursing homes. Dr Marcus de Brun, who runs the Rush Family Practice in Co Dublin, also holds a degree in Microbiology from Trinity College Dublin. His letter of resignation accused the […]
The election is upon us, and this year’s election will be fought on the three H’s. Housing, Homelessness and Health. The latter is the one which affects each and every one of us, and one which has dominated the headlines for all the wrong reasons into the New Year. Fine Gael came into power ten […]