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GOOGLE IRELAND HAS confirmed plans to build an in-house swimming pool for employees in its new building in the Docklands area of Dublin.
A spokesperson for the search giant said it will apply for planning permission for a swimming pool and gym at the Montevetro building, which it purchased for just under €100million earlier this year.
The facilities will be the latest additions to a line of perks enjoyed by Google staff. One former employee at the firm’s Dublin office told TheJournal.ie that workers can avail of a wide range of free food and entertainment.
Every floor has an area with a Nintendo Wii, table football and a pool table for staff to use, the former staffer said.
Part of the company’s mission statement is to offer “generous nutrition and fitness benefits.” “You get free breakfast and lunch every day,” the former employee said. “There’s sushi every day; they have pastry chefs on staff. You get free beers on Friday, from five o’clock.”
The company’s parties are also well known, with one apparently involving the hiring out of entire funfair rides for staff.
The Irish Times reports that the swimming pool is likely to occupy part of the three basement levels of the Montevetro building, which is the tallest office building in Dublin.
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Personally I can’t get my head around the thought of arranging my own death but then again I am not terminally ill or in extreme pain.
You have to respect everyones individual right to do with their lives as they wish under the given circumstances.
And as the article stated. In Holland it is under very strict control.
Just as it is in Switzerland.
I can’t fathom how anyone would have an objection to this.
Brilliant service. If only the UK and Ireland would adopt it. If people who are suffering from terminal illness and are in pain wish to avail of this service it should be their right to do so. It won’t be for everybody and no doubt the ‘religious impaired’ will be up in arms over it but then nobody is being forced to use such a service so it’s down to the individual concerned. It’s their choice. Once again it comes down to people being the given the choice. The idea of being able to escape terminal illness or severe pain at ones own choosing and in the surroundings of your own home with family or friends around you is something many people would choose over a long drawn out and sometimes painful and undignified death. The EU should legislate to make this service pan European and available to all citizens of the EU including Ireland.
As long as there are clear and strict legal guidelines, then this is a humane and compassionate policy for terminally ill patients – the people who actually matter in this debate, as opposed to those who seek to impose their personal views of morality on others…I would welcome a similiar policy here, or at the very least a proper debate on the right to die.
Great! Too bad every country doesn’t have one. In Ireland if a dog or cat etc is too sick to have any quality of life it’s humanely put to sleep. Humans are left to Rot until no matter how many different medicines they’re on the body gives up. Everyone should have the right to choose.
deadly !!
‘deadly’ is in relation to the next comment about the RDS
Brilliant you should have the choice
Fully agree with people having the choice.The danger is when someone else makes the choice for the individual that is my only concern.
I don’t think that’s permitted. If you have a condition that is liable to affect your mental faculties then you have to have it in your will, and you have to have written that will before you have progressed past a certain stage.
At least, that’s how they do it in Switzerland, I remember Terry Pratchetts show about it (and him speaking as a man with Alzheimer’s)
I’ve always found it ironic that we put animals down to end their suffering but with humans we enforce prolonged suffering.
The sooner end-of-life choices arrive in Ireland the better…
It will never be adopted here… The catholic church considers Euthanasia ‘a mortal sin’ at least this attempt to keep people from their rights doesn’t specifically target and degrade women…
If only we treated our terminally ill people with as much compassion.. I work with the elderly, I remember one woman asking me did god even exist, because she had been praying to him to end her suffering every day for years and yet there she was, ulcers all over her legs, barium poisoning, constant agony.. She was a good woman, she raised her kids well and everyone loved her – she didn’t deserve all that pain. When I heard she had passed away I felt glad for her, that she had been freed at last..
I meet this every day. It’s all very well the church saying they should suffer and make martyrs of themselves but to me that’s like supporting unnecessary torture..
There are plenty who would not choose euthanasia, their desire to hang on and see their kids / grand kids / great grand kids grow up is so strong that it helps them. But for those who have made their peace with leaving this life, who have made the decision for themselves, their choice should be respected.
Well written
If you don’t like it, don’t have one! People should have the choice! Same goes for abortion and gay marriage!
Great to see the comments here are taking a common sense approach to things like this. There would of course need to be strong punishment of abusers of this eg coercion by relatives etc. But these objections shouldn’t be used as a reason not to legalise it. Lifetime is about quality not quantity.
That’s would be stupid using it as a punishment. If a murderer is sentenced to death, what makes the person who “punishes” him any better?
I think we have our wires crossed Mr Lee. I mean the law should have a strong punishment for a relative who coerced someone to use euthanasia. Friends or relatives seeking the will or to be rid of someone they see as an inconvenience. These issues can be dealt with.
i wonder would they call to the RDS this weekend?
beat me to it :)
Reports, unconfirmed mind you, say, the FG/Lab coalition Government are planning to introduce euthanasia for the over sixties in a mini budget and slow strangulation or suffocation for the rest of the population. They are setting up a technical committee or quango of buddies to affirm the austerity benefits of both. The government also say it was part of their austerity suggestions to the Merkozy gang in December which they (Markozy`s) passed on to the other half, the IMF to pursue.
We already have this, albeit in a slow drawn-out poverty-induced process of not turning on the heat, cutting back on essentials like food, and then when people inevitably get sick allowing them to die on waiting lists or trolleys in order to pay millionaire and billionaire gamblers, part of whose gambling money is your and my pension. Every excess death due to government cut-backs is involuntary euthanasia. Which is more moral, a quick dignified goodbye with the company of your choosing or an isolated, dehumanising freezing and starvation?
And as usual somebody hijacks an irrelevant article with more government bashing… Yawn
Gotta respect the Dutch, not afraid to confront issues and deal with them,
If people wish to die with dignity and end their suffering then this is an ethical service that should be supported. As usual there will be massive objections based upon religious beliefs, I can only say if your religious beliefs command you to die in a horrible painful and undignified manner then you are free to do so, but please do not force me to do the same.
Whats the phone number of the dail?
There a bit thick over there , why dont they just not charge the battery !
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