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 Nenagh Hospital to be further downgraded The already downgraded Nenagh General Hospital here in North Tipperary could lose its intensive care unit as early as next month, the Nenagh Hospital Action Group now claims.
At the end of 2009, the Health Service Executive (HSE) confirmed plans to close the ICUs at Nenagh and Ennis hospitals, stating the units would be centralised at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick, as part of their reconfiguration of health services in the mid-west.
The HSE would not confirm a time frame when contacted, but action group secretary M/s Noreen Kennedy said staff at the hospital have been informed that the ICU will definitely close in March or possibly as early as February.
There are currently five intensive and coronary care beds at Nenagh hospital and six at Ennis.
Last November, construction began on a critical care unit at Dooradoyle, that will contain a 12-bed ICU, a 14-bed high-dependency unit and a 16-bed coronary care unit, among other features. The HSE expects the development to be completed by the end of this year.
M/s Kennedy said the action group is concerned about what system will be put in place after Nenagh loses its ICUand expressed concerns that Nenagh will also lose its emergency department.
The group called on opposition party candidates contesting the General Election to publicise their proposals for the future of north Tipperary’s health services and intend to lobby and question strongly all prospective candidates in the coming days.
North Tipperary supporters of Nenagh Hospital, claim that it would appear that a Gaming Casino has taken precedence over any Health Service protection for North Tipperary residents and all outgoing candidates seeking re-election, who made promises, must now pay the political price for failure.
Sometimes I wonder if all of the money spent on education is wasted, but actions taken by students yesterday and hopefully today, have allayed those fears.
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) will take a visit to Leinster House today to officially launch their ‘Your Future, Your Vote‘ campaign.
The USI “Your Future, Your Vote” aims to allow the younger generation of Ireland to decide their own future and to make the politicians aware that students are registering to vote en masse.
USI President Gary Redmond stated the analogy and logic used by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union Address: “Ireland is spending billions of euro on educating young people before sending them abroad to compete against us. There are parents every single day of the week in the airports all over the country saying goodbye to their children.”
I would have been delighted to show you a piece of video from Dail Eireann, but no material was available.
 USI are on the move
USI are encouraging all local students to register to vote, prior to the looming general election. They claim that for too long the younger generations of Irish society have been ignored, but now, it is time that politicians sat up and listened.
Young people in Ireland will shoulder years of crippling debt thanks to the mistakes of the current generation and they will not tolerate a single second more of lacklustre governance from Irish politicians.
They claim that on polling day, politicians in every corner of the country will realise that students are no longer a dormant force as thousands of young people descend on polling stations to decide the future direction of this country.
Yesterday the special tour bus took to the road and hundreds of students abandoned canteens, bars, lecture halls and libraries, in the Tipperary Institute in Thurles, in Carlow College, and in IT Carlow to registered to vote.
The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is on the move, aiming to sign up 50,000 students to vote in the next fortnight and they are adamant students will have the power to influence change.
President of IT Carlow Students’ Union Kate Acheson stated yesterday: “We will not tolerate a single second more of lacklustre governance from Irish politicians. On polling day, politicians in every corner of this country will realise that students are no longer a dormant force in society.”
USI claim that they intend to meet all of the political parties in the coming days to ask them directly their future policies on college fees/ and grants.
 Chartist Demonstration Poster of 1848 We here in Ireland need to behave like the Charterist Movement of the early 1840’s, and we, unlike them, have one advantage, we have the right to vote.
With the present General Election looming, most of those who have been part of our outgoing government are fully aware that their only place in a new Dail Eireann, will be by taking over the seating arrangements, previously kept warm by the arses of our present opposition.
Fianna Fail under Micheál Martin, displaying an inherited FF arrogance, called today for a public debate, still dreaming that the party he represents are still going to have a major say in our immediate future.
Knowing they are going to remain in opposition, small political groupings like Sinn Fein, Independents and possibly the Green Party, can now spout whatever they feel their understandably angry voters want to hear. They can and will protest about everything, the Four Year Plan, Environmental policy,The IMF, Lower Paid Workers, the Universal Social Charge or reclaiming control of the Public Sector. But these protests must be seen by voters for what they are, attempts to gather votes by gombeen individuals who selfishly are seeking another term of unvouched expenses, inflated salaries, inflated pensions and most of all the sense of being powerful.
We now need a different breed of politician in Ireland and change must come quickly, because to survive as a state, with the present political system, we can no longer carry on. We have, as a nation, once again allowed ourselves to be invaded. There are two ways to conquer a country, send in an invading force of well armed troops, or the EU modern way, which is loan us vast sums of money at high interest rates which they know we cannot repay. Ireland, thanks to our gombeen politicians, has been invaded, we have been enslaved and sadly we only have ourselves, as voters, to blame.
In a democracy such as ours, change can only ever originate from the electorate. If we continue to elect our representatives, without looking beyond our own narrow views of personal self interests, we will continue to attract the gombeen politicians we truly deserve and as Irish men and women, remain the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, within Europe.
We as a nation are unable to even protest democratically in any unified way. When our elderly citizens demonstrated against losing their medical card, they did so very much alone. When our student sons and daughters marched, they did so detached, while agents of our State were allowed to discourage them, using rough justice. When our present Fianna Fail Government clung to power, long after the electorate had made it clear that they no longer had a mandate to govern, we as a nation remained deathly silent. Despite the fact that this outgoing government continued to embarrass us on the world stage, making us a laughing stock in front of our European partners, we as a nation take no action.
Ireland is a nation and our democratically elected representatives are, by accepting their elected role, charged with standing up for our citizens and our down trodden, behaving democratically, safeguarding our wealth and fairly distributing our scarce public funds responsibly.
This present Government in December last, told us that we must now pay increased taxes and endure reduced public services, because they were not minding the shop, while they themselves continued to misappropriate our funds and our loyalty in a cynical and contemptuous way for the purchase of future votes. They allowed minority Independent TD’s of minor importance, to pull their strings, to the detriment of our democracy and the well being of the people of this country as a whole. They have placed their brain washed followers in positions of importance on boards and in positions of influence to make decisions which will effect and assist ‘The Party‘.
Continue reading How To Cast Your Vote In A Dysfunctional Ireland
 Seamus Morris with Gerry Adams Councillor and Nenagh town Mayor Mr Seamus Morris has been selected as the Sinn Féin candidate to represent North Tipperary in the 2011 General Election, following a Cumann meeting in Nenagh.
Seamus (Seamie) first contested the General Election in 2007 and was eliminated on the first count with 1672 first preference votes.
Seamus, a postman with An Post, is presently also a member of North Tipperary County Council and a member and Mayor of Nenagh Town Council.
In late January 2010 Seamus threatening to leave the Sinn Féin party unless there was a change to “top down diktats” from the leadership. However, Seamus later withdrew a claim he had made in a local newspaper, claiming that Gerry Adams needed to step down as party leader. He also later denied that he said he would leave unless Mr Adams resigned. His then outburst came following three Dublin City councillors, namely Killian Forde, Louise Minihan and Christy Burke and Waterford councillor John Dwyer, announced they were leaving the party. Mr Morris claimed that Sinn Fein was committing “harakiri” and were making it hard for him to do his job, as an elected councillor.
Recently Mayor Morris stated: “While Fianna Fail worry about Fianna Fail the country goes into meltdown. They are traitors to the people in this country. They need severe hardship inflicted on them in the election. Not voting will only help them.”
Mayor Morris is married with four children.
Gerry Adams
Mr Gerry Adams was re-elected as MP for West Belfast, garnering some 71.1% of the vote and following the announcement of the forced Irish general election for 2011, being held on 11 March 2011 or earlier, Mr Adams wrote to Westminster to formally resign his seat, thus enabling him to stand for election in the constituency of Louth, here in the Irish Republic.
Gerry Adams has been President of Sinn Féin since 1983. In 1987 he was instrumental in launching the party’s current peace strategy with the publication of the discussion document Scenario for Peace. This was followed in 1992 with the document Towards a Lasting Peace in Ireland.
He has travelled internationally to advance the peace process particularly in the United States, Britain and South Africa. He has also campaigned on issues of human rights and justice, including the demand for the cancellation of world debt.
 US Economic Envoy Declan Kelly United States Economic Envoy Mr Declan Kelly will make a number of keynote speeches in Northern Ireland today.
His one-day visit will include a number of keynote speeches which are being hosted by the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and the University of Ulster.
Mr Kelly, a native of Portroe, Nenagh, County Tipperary, was advisor to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her campaign for the presidency.
He is also a former vice-president of FTI, a global business consultancy.
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