Monthly Archives: November 2009
Tranquil
“Quiet in here tonight, eh?”, says Ron. “Yeah”, I say, sipping my pint and looking around. Dirty Dave is at home trying to fix his bathroom. He got it done up but forgot to have toilet put in so he’s … Continue reading
Sunday Times and RTE – Savage cunts
Some time ago I was walking through town and I neared the top of Grafton Street. ‘Comedian’ David McSavage was there with his guitar and his amp spewing his ‘unique brand’ of aural pollution. A man and his daughter passed … Continue reading
This man is a legend
Spotted earlier on Lexia’s Twitter, this upstanding gentleman was still outside Dubray Books when I passed by this afternoon. Legend. The faces of the two cops looking on as nobody queued to see the scuttery little shop-steward of a cunt … Continue reading
Priorities
So yesterday NAMA was passed. We don’t have money to pay for cancer vaccines, hospitals, old aged pensioners to buy a bit of wood for the fire, but we’ve got €54bn to bail out property developers and gamblers dressed as … Continue reading
My toaster is shit
It’s the worst toaster ever. It takes ages to make toast. I could nearly go out and fetch kindling then wood and build my own fire, on a wet day, then toast my bread using a stick. I wish Dyson … Continue reading
It explains everything
If you ever wondered why the people of Ireland seemingly ‘put up’ with crooked politicians, abusive clergy and all the other gobshitery that surrounds us on a daily basis then listening to Liveline will give you the answers you need. … Continue reading
Stupid bishops
Story in today’s Irish Times: IRELAND’S CATHOLIC bishops are “totally opposed” to the redevelopment of the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria, west England, and would also oppose any plans to build a nuclear reactor in Ireland, the Archbishop of Cashel … Continue reading
I sometimes wonder
Have Cadbury’s ever managed to make a crumblier, flakier chocolate than the one they use in Cadbury’s Flakes? Maybe years ago they though the pinaccle of crumbliness and flakiness had been reached but with new technology I suspect they could … Continue reading
The RTE Frontline shouty bloke
Ireland has a new hero. It’s angry shouty bloke. Here he is on RTE’s Frontline last night giving it to Pat Kenny: My favourite bit is when he talks about Mary Hanafin and says “She’s been elected to be a … Continue reading
The HSE is ‘world class’
Professor Brendan Drumm says the HSE is ‘world class’. He’s right. World class at cancelling operations in children’s hospitals World class at telling people who fear they might have cancer that they don’t have cancer and then going ‘Ooops. You … Continue reading
Professor Brendan Drumm says the HSE is ‘world class’. He’s right.
World class at cancelling operations in children’s hospitals
World class at telling people who fear they might have cancer that they don’t have cancer and then going ‘Ooops. You know what? You do have cancer! So sorry about that … oh, you’re dead.’
World class at creating a two-tier health system
World class at paying consultants huge wages when some consultants say they don’t have enough work to do and those in similar positions in other countries are paid far less, leaving aside the cost of the support staff each consultant needs
World class at providing fewer beds and increasing wait times. ‘What’s that? Need to see a consultant? They’re all busy until March 2011. Unless you have health insurance then how does next Thursday sound?’
World class at the ‘See how many patients we can sleep on trollies’ championships (they bring home the gold every time).
World class at providing a buffer for an obese buffoon of a Health Minister who has no business being in government and who can wash her hands of every problem and accept no responsibility
World class at being overblown with administration staff yet cooking their books to try and make out as if they aren’t
World class at making the jobs of important staff such as doctors and nurses as difficult as they can possibily make them
World class at trying to close wonderful facilities such as St Lukes in Dublin to create so-called ‘centres of excellence’ when leaving St Lukes open would be excellence and moving all those people to the filthy shithole that is St James’s Hospital is not
World class at paying their Chief Executive a massive bonus for doing what most people would consider to be a pretty terrible job
World class at closing A&E units and hospital wards
World class at dissembling, spinning and duplicity while tackling problems without excuse making or setting up committees to look into the committee which was set up to look into the committee to investigate something that people can’t remember anymore
World class all right.
Third world class.
On reflection, that’s unfair. To third world health services.