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SOME 401 PEOPLE are waiting for beds in hospitals around the country, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).
As of this morning, there were 41 people on trolleys in Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown, 37 in Beaumont Hospital, 37 in University Hospital Limerick and 31 in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
A full list of the number of people on trolleys today is available here.
On Tuesday, the number of people in emergency departments waiting for beds exceeded 600 for the first time ever.
Yesterday, Fianna Fáil leader criticised Leo Varadkar for his handling of the situation, saying the Health Minister needed to take action and “stop being a commentator and some sort of detached analyst”.
Varadkar’s predecessor James Reilly defended him, saying he has “a very difficult job to do”.
On Monday it emerged that Dr Tony O’Connell is to resign as HSE National Director for Acute Hospitals and Chairman of the Emergency Department Taskforce at the end of the month in order to move to Australia, where his wife is taking up a top academic post.
Vardakar said he has been in contact with O’Connell every day bar Christmas Day in recent weeks.
He said the measures advised by the Taskforce such as curtailing elective surgery and making more homecare packages available, clearly didn’t work or weren’t fully implemented over the busy Christmas period.
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A sentence fitting for the crime. Unlike the nonsense that goes on here.
Sure if we were to lock ‘em all up for 90 yrs, where would all the poor lawyers, barristers , solicitors and judges make all their money??
and work themselves out of a very well paid job? that’s not how the world works kitty…
Kitty
They say that but they don’t mean it.
Common sense tells you that.
Kitty you obviously don’t know too many lawyers if you think that. Either that or they’re lying to you.
The jellyfish political parasites we have haven’t got the guts to pass laws that would punish evil sc@m.
Statue licking clowns.
Chris’s remark was tongue-in-cheek hence the work “sure” at the beginning.
90 years? .Now that’s a proper sentence.No mickey mouse judge handing out mickey mouse sentences in that court.
90 years in prisonis well deserved. I hate to think it but if this attack happened here, the sentence wouldn’t be 9 months.
With all of it suspended
Don’t forget Dave, there were 2 assaults so there would be 2 sentences, to run concurrently obviously.
Wish that girl well ,encouragement , karma. Let’s get her ready for the wedding . Go girl go .
Absolute savage at least he will rot. Extremely courageous ladies. Hats off
Stacy is a class lady. An example to all – what a friend she’s been. And maybe we should say in the most positive way: only in America. Most Americans have a real kindness and open heart which I’m sure our emigrants to US will affirm.
Now, he has 90 years to think whether he will repeat it again….
You know what? This is brilliant news that this whole case didn’t end in tragedy. Buckley’s case will haunt me for a while, but seeing that McShane is progressing well has never been more reassuring on the lives of Irish people abroad.
Makes the Irish system look pathetic , when you read during the week that a guy with 97 previous convictions attacked somebody with a bicycle lock causing them to lose sight in one eye gets 5 years with 2 suspended . What would you have to do in Ireland to get 90 years???
That girl is a class act and a true friend …. Fair play to her …. And awesome stuff on the recovery Natasha
“Irrelevant bitterness” nothing irrelevant about soft sentences for wicked crimes and its perfectly natural to feel bitter if you see a murderer getting a laughably short sentence due to “mitigating circumstances”.
90 years that’s a sentence.. If only criminals in Ireland who commit crime got half that
You couldn’t commit enough crimes in Ireland to get 90 years no matter what despicable crimes you did.. There is no concept of justice in this country. . The softie lefties have taken over and now it’s all about rehabilitating the crims so much so that they have no fear and commit crime at will..
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