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Portlaoise Prison: Talk to Joey
[RTÉ reports] A total of 17 mobile phones, three SIM cards, 11 chargers and eight batteries have now been discovered hidden in Portlaoise Prison. Search teams have also found a large quantity of home-made alcohol, 150 tablets, including ecstasy, 30 syringes and a budgie. [make that 2 budgies]
HSE shoots self in foot and bleeds to death in crowded A&E court case
reading my rss feeds I get confused breakingnews.ie “The Attorney General today insisted there was nothing preventing a teenage girl fighting to travel to Britain for an abortion from doing so.” ireland.com “The District Court has refused to grant a teenage girl the right to travel to Britain for an abortion.” OK AG works for…
I felt embarrassed
[debate] The Taoiseach: The Deputy is right. I felt embarrassed a few evenings ago when I watched a country with a population of more than 60 million people receive the results of its highest poll ever – 85% of the population – within two hours. The Taoiseach: With a bit of luck our election results…
Irish Health
as seen by fox news DUBLIN, Ireland — A Dublin hospital apologized Thursday for telling a family their relative was dead, only to discover he was still alive when the morticians arrived. The patient, identified only as a disabled man in his 30s, was checked in to the Mater Hospital in inner north Dublin during the Easter period, where…
There are some things money can’t buy [rpt]
Overpriced land for new prison – €30 million MIT Europe Fiasco – €40 million An electronic voting system that can’t be used – €52 million A payroll system that pays staff 1 million a month – €160 million Having a government that blows our cash – Priceless There are some things money can’t buy –…
Airbrushed Politics
I needed a source to prove i wasn’t hearing things. And it goes further, the Oireachtas Report script writers are auto correcting Enda Kenny’s chlorosporidum to be cryptsporidum. Yesterday I noticed that the Dail stenographers are doing the same, make a mistake and they will fix it. so the source is in real media here…
Chloro or Cryptosporidium
[see also: airbrushed politics] repeatedly the leader of Fine Gael said in yesterdays Leaders Questions in the Irish Parliament “Chlorosporidium” when others call it Cryptosporidium wikipedia Trivia says “Cryptosporidium infected the drinking water of Galway, Ireland in March 2007, causing many illnesses.” :::: I remember a Cryptosporidium outbreak in Scotland in 2000, may have caused…