University Hospital Limerick (UHL), which services North Tipperary, yet again ‘Tops the Poll’ as the most overcrowded medical facility here in Ireland.
In fact the two hospitals serving the people of County Tipperary are today grossly overcrowded, while nationally 426 people are waiting for beds, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).
Total patients in Co. Tipperary without a bed 101.
University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is as expected, worst hit, with 66 patients waiting on a bed. In South Tipperary’s General Hospital, Clonmel 35 patients currently remain on trolleys.
Nationally, of the 426 patients stated; 298 are waiting in emergency department, while 128 are in wards elsewhere in hospitals.
Despite current Local & European Elections the Silence Continues, however Fine Gael are not ruling out the possibility of an early General Election, so let’s vote accordingly.
All five seats in the 2019 local election, for the Thurles Ward, have now been filled.
Thurles Elected Candidates:
Mr Micheál Lowry – Independent – Holycross, Thurles – First Count – [Votes 1,710]. Mr Seamus Hanafin – Fianna Fáil – Thurles – Fifth Count – [Votes 1,558]. Mr Peter Ryan – Fine Gael – Thurles / Upperchurch – Fifth Count – [Votes 1,546]. Mr Sean Ryan – Fianna Fáil – Littleton, Thurles– Seventh Count – [Votes 1,329] Mr Jim Ryan – Independent – Thurles – Seventh Count – [Votes 1,180].
Mr Seamus Hanifin ran his election completely without election posters.
Thurles Non Elected Candidates:
David Doran – Independent – [Votes 1,091]. Fergal Butler – Fianna Fáil – [Votes 585]. Tommy Barrett – Independent – [Votes 341]. Ciara Mccormack – Sinn Féin – [Votes 267]. Catherine Fogarty – Independent– [Votes 118]. Michael Bracken – Independent – [Votes 91].
Sinn Féin, as expected, failed completely to make any impact in Thurles; with their next General Election candidate, Mrs Ciara McCormack, winning a mere 267 first preference votes.
In all, 40 councillors have now been elected to Tipperary County Council.
The Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly in favour of the removal of the existing Article 41.3.2(i) in Bunreacht na hÉireann being removed, thus changing current references on ‘Divorce’ in the Constitution.
Final Vote: The final vote was 1,304,949 in favour of these changes (82.1%), with 284,735 against (17.9%).
The changes to Article 41.3.2 (i) will mean that couples won’t have to wait as long before getting a divorce and reduce the waiting time frame, before obtaining same, to two of the previous three years; rather than four out of the previous five years, as exists currently.
Nationally the voter turnout was 50.83% with some 1,727,056 participating.
Nearly 2,000 Gardaí are being drafted in for just one day, into Doonbeg Co. Clare, to protect a 400-acre property and its two owners. This one-day-event will cost the Irish tax payer nearly €11million Euro, when Defence Forces and local authority costs are taken into account.
Irish Army Ranger snipers backed up by elite Garda units will patrol the golf course itself.
US President Mr Donald Trump, aged 72, and his 49-year-old wife Mrs Melania Trump will arrive into Shannon Airport on the morning of Wednesday June 5th next and will meet with our Irish Taoiseach Mr Leo Varadkar at Shannon Airport, before heading to his Doonbeg hotel for a game of golf.
Meanwhile, Back Here In Thurles
Meanwhile, back here in Thurles, (according to our hidden cameras), two days prior to our local election, and for the first time in 5 years; staff employed by Tipperary Co. Council, bet down the wild marsh grasses and willow saplings on the river Suir near Barry’s Bridge. We understand that same were seen to pose a “Clear and Present Danger” to some outgoing councillors; latter who feared that snipers could hide, totally unseen, in the dense undergrowth, as same councillors paraded, grinning, around Liberty Square, totally unprotected and without a Garda in sight.
Would not this same €11million Euro have been better spent on a Ring Road for Thurles? This will be the burning question, here in Thurles Town, this morning; well it probably will be when everyone eventually wakens up.
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