“Front-line workers are working under immense pressure, under immense strain and they are extremely courageous. The least we can do is give them the tools, the training and the environments in which they can do that work at the safest possible level”.
Above quote from the lips of Dr Mike Ryan, latter current Executive Director Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization (WHO).
For years, University Hospital Limerick has been the most overcrowded hospital in our Irish Republic, with a record of 18,028 patients waiting on trolleys and on trolleys in wards, during 2022, according to reliable figures provided by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), based on their 5-day trolley and ward count.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes – Who shall keep the keepers themselves?
As our elected Tipperary politicians decorate their social media pages; each attempting to associate themselves with greatness, based on the recent personal hard work and well deserved successes of other individuals; e.g. Winners of American Golden Globe Awards, GAA match parish triumphs & Irish BT Young Scientist & Technology award winners; University Hospital Limerick (UHL) and Nenagh Hospital, both medical facilities serving North Tipperary, have during their tenure as TD’s, been left unrepresented; disrespected; ignored and totally neglected.
One would have believed that same of our politicians, if fully awake, would have seen the writing on the wall, when on April 21st last 2022, all records were broken when 126 patients waited on trolleys; the highest ever daily figure since 2006.
In the last 14 days we have listened and read press releases from our politicians, (written by those with lesser authority than themselves), criticizing HSE officials and staff with regards over-crowding conditions at our hospitals.
Do you hear the people sing?
“Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men? It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!”
[Extract from song written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, “Do you hear the people sing?” – Les Miserables]
Meanwhile, a protest held in Limerick city today, organised by the Mid-West Hospital Campaign, together with Friends of Ennis Hospital and groups representing Nenagh Hospital, saw some 11,000 people take to the streets of the city.
Two separate, one minute silences, were observed during the protest; one for to remember the 126 people who were left waiting on trolleys last April, same the highest daily figure ever recorded at the UHL facility; the second in memory of a Co. Clare teenager, Ms Aoife Johnston, who sadly died from meningitis last month at UHL, after allegedly spending a significant period of time on a hospital trolley.
Protesters carried pictures of their loved ones today, latter who were left frightened and nervous due extreme overcrowded conditions, and alas some others who passed away at the medical facility.
Protesters stated they were exceedingly angry and fearful that this overcrowding has been allowed to continue and are seeking a reversal of the decision taken in 2009, under a Fianna Fáil government, to downgrade the 24-hour services at Nenagh Hospital, Co. Tipperary; Ennis Hospital Co. Clare, and St John’s Hospital, Co. Limerick.
Similar smaller protests took place elsewhere around the country today, with protesters sending a similar message to both the Government and the Health Service Executive, stating that they were no longer going to tolerate a health system which has, for far too long, been ignored and mismanaged.
Define ‘Neglect’:- A failure to look after; a failure to care for; failure to provide for; to leave alone or to abandon.
It’s called “putting the cart before the horse”, latter a figure of speech meaning to place things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities. The meaning of the phrase is based on the common knowledge that a horse, for the most part, usually pulls the cart.
Tipperary Co. Council aided and abetted by Thurles Municipal District Council officials and elected councillors, have long years of practice in perfecting this same art, in the knowledge that taxpayers silently accept their pockets being picked.
The picture, shown above, adequately demonstrates the waste of public funding.
This week one local councillor is “calling” for this same body of river water to be cleaned to avoid this flooding.
If and when this work is ever undertaken, the heavy machinery will move in. Can same operate avoiding the breaking of this river hugging, tarmac footpath?
A North Tipperary farmer has been convicted in court and fined €1,000 for killing two Mute swans on his property.
Mr Thomas Hogan with an address at Kylebeg, Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary was convicted and fined at Nenagh District Court on January 5th last.
On conviction Mr Hogan was fined the sum of €1,000 for shooting and killing the two Mute Swans on his lands at Ashley Park, Ardcrony, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, on a date understood to be March 21st, 2021.
The case had previously been heard before the court in June of 2022 when Mr Hogan pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 22 of the Wildlife Act.
The case had been investigated and prosecuted by an Gardaí Siochána in conjunction with (NPWS).
Sgt Regina McCarthy outlined the facts of the case, while the National Parks and Wildlife Service conservation ranger detailed legal options that would have been available to Hogan to address the issue of flocks of swans grazing his farmland.
Mr Justice John King convicted and fined Mr Hogan €500 per swan and granted him six months in order to pay the fine.
Pre-deceased by his parents Timothy and Catherine, his brother Tim; Mr Maher passed away while in the care of staff at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.
His passing is most deeply regretted and sadly missed by his loving wife Geraldine, children Neil, Gregg, and Edel, daughters-in-law, Anita, Gemma, son-in-law Simon, grandchildren, Lydia, Mark, Evan, Jack, Harry, Callum, Luke, Dara, and Liam, Aunt Bridie, brothers Jim, Paul, sister Mary, brothers and sisters in law, nieces, nephews, extended relatives, neighbours and friends.
Requiescat in Pace.
Funeral Arrangements.
The earthly remains of Mr Maher will repose at his residence on Sunday, January 22nd, from 12:00 noon followed by prayers at 9:00pm. His remains will leave his residence on Monday morning, January 23rd, at 10:20am, before being received into the Church of St. Mary, Sessiaghoneill, Co. Donegal, to further repose for Requiem Mass at 11:00am. Private cremation will follow later.
For those of you who are unable to attend Requiem Mass for Mr Maher, same can be viewed, streamed live online HERE.
The extended Maher family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
Note Please: House strictly private on Saturday evening, (January 21st), and also on Monday morning(January 23rd) latter the morning of the funeral.
His passing is most deeply regretted by his loving family; heartbroken parents Connie and Sheila, brothers Michael, Richard and Noel, children Mark, Millie, Amy, Aisling and their mother Mary, Macie and her mother Christine, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, aunts, uncles, cousins, extended relatives, neighbours and a wide circle of friends.
Requiescat in Pace.
Funeral Arrangements.
The earthly remains of Mr Keane will repose at Hayes Funeral Home, Clonoulty, Cashel, Co. Tipperary on Sunday evening, January 22nd, from 5:00pm until 7:00pm, before being received into the Church of St. John the Baptist, Clonoulty, Cashel at 7:30pm. Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Monday morning, January 23rd, at 11:30am, followed by interment immediately afterwards in Clonoulty Cemetery. Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
For those of you who are unable to attend Requiem Mass for Mr Keane, same can be viewed, streamed live online HERE.
The extended Keane family wish to express their appreciation for your understanding at this difficult time and have made arrangements for those persons wishing to send messages of condolence, to use the link shown HERE.
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