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A PRIEST IN Donegal says he’s disgusted about the ‘Shag a Ginger Night’ being promoted in a local nightclub in Letterkenny and has contacted the gardaí about the event.
Fr Lorcán Ó Searcaigh says it’s an insult to red haired people.
Speaking on Barrscéalta on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta today the parish priest in Glenfinn said he has been contacted by concerned parents about the event, who are very angry, and feel that it’s clearly a form of bullying against red heads.
I was disgusted to hear the theme of this event. The parents really feel that it’s a form of bullying, and I think it’s insulting to people with red hair.
He added that he contacted the venue in question, Pulse nightclub, to verify that the information he had was accurate.
I spoke to the nightclub, and they told me that the theme was just a gimmick. I told them that if they had to stoop that low to get people in, they shouldn’t be in business at all.
Ó Searcaigh contacted the gardaí but was told that no law was being being broken and that it would be a civil rather than a criminal matter.
The priest then appealed to the nightclub to change the theme of the event:
I spoke to the nightclub a second time as well, and told them again that I was very unhappy about the event and that a lot of people were very upset about it.
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Letterkenny IT Student Union has said that it has nothing to do with the event.
In a post on its Facebook page, it stated, “The Student Union logo is not present at all in this, the student union have not promoted this event at all and yet the SU is to blame.
Businesses are entitled to promote what they want, Student Unions cannot stop business promotions or events, unless they represent a logo with regards to the Student Union.
“To the people who are offended, read the poster properly and realise the LYIT Student Union logo isn’t present. This is not an LYIT Student Union event this is a Business Event.”
The event, which is due to take place tomorrow night, promises free entry to people with red hair, it also offers to dye people’s hair red and give out free condoms.
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I once worked for a company involved with one of these devices. The ‘update’ can mean as little as requiring somebody to read a letter stating there is a minuscule chance of the device needing a service and these devices will warn you when they do anyway.
One device once needed a full recall so that a sticker could be put on the packaging to tell people not to leave it out if temperatures are below freezing.
My point being, though the HPRA advice makes it sound dangerous and scary, 99.9% of the time its really not. It’s a box ticking exercise because something went wrong in one machine out of hundreds of thousands.
@Ailbhe: While you may be correct in what you say, in a hospital setting this would mean contacting the person responsible for AED’s who would make the decision to pass this onto the relevant Department for further action, if necessary. In today’s litigious society it would be acted upon.
However if the AED is in a Shopping Centre, a sports club or meeting hall there may be some confusion over who exactly is responsible for it, perhaps it was donated. Someone may test it occasionally but have no competence beyond that, they may be unaware of HPRA alerts or of who to contact.
These are lifesaving medical devices, we place our trust in them but when it comes to the maintenance of them and ensuring they’re fit for purpose it appears to be chaotic. The HPRA issue alerts but there doesn’t seem to be any single body assigned to check they’re being correctly maintained or removed if they can’t be fixed. The onus is placed on the owners of the AED’s to ensure they’re in good working order.
I’m sure there are many facilities up and down the country who take the maintenance of their AED very seriously, however as the HPRA can only estimate how many there are, I’m also certain there are some out there that are forgotten. Maybe there should be someone responsible for maintaining them nationally.
@Arch Angel: I’ve said nothing that contradicts what you’ve said and you’ve said nothing that contradicts what I’ve said. Maybe your point should be a standalone one, rather than one that pretends to correct me on something I didn’t say.
@Ailbhe: Forgive me, I wasn’t trying to correct or contradict you on anything. In reality I suppose I took a long time to say that if an alert regarding AED’s were issued 6 months ago we can be reasonably sure that, in a hospital environment, this will be acted upon.
We may not have the same level of confidence for an AED in the local bingo hall, yet both are life saving medical devices.
Should the one in the hospital fail due to that alert not being implemented, that may result in a substantial compensation payment from the HSE, but would the local bingo hall be capable of paying such high compensation?
@Arch Angel: A failure of a device would be the manufacturers fault if corrective action is not taken or all reasonable efforts have been made to notify and the owners that corrective action is required.
This didn’t come as a shock.
Can somebody whos smarter than me create an app that shows all the locations of defibrillators around the country?
@Joe Ryan: Save a selfie, you take a picture and geo tag fire hydrant and aed locations.
@Joe Ryan: Already done – there is an volunteer made app on android that shows all this information for ireland – complete with photos and owners contact details.
@Anthony Clark: Do you know the name of the app? Would be handy to have especially out in the schticks
I blame Brexit.
How often are these things used ?
600 of them you would want a lot of energy to fix all them .
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