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BED SHORTAGES ACROSS the country are continuing to cause serious problems in hospitals, health professionals have said.
This morning there were 378 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals. Speaking to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland, Professor Paul O’Regan, Consultant Physician at South Tipperary General said there were 30 patients on trolleys at his hospital.
He described conditions there as “dreadful for patients, it’s undignified, disgraceful, dangerous for patients”.
It’s impossible almost for staff to work to an adequate, safe level and it puts tremendous pressure on the nurses, paramedical staff and doctors.
O’Regan said the conditions also make recruitment and retainment of staff difficult because “people burn out and give up and move on elsewhere”. Just last week seven senior nurses left the hospital, he said.
The bed shortage at South Tipperary General is the result of cuts to bed numbers nationally and the closure of the level 3 hospital in Nenagh, according to O’Regan.
“We are effectively the acute hospital for much of Tipperary.”
He said the process of addressing the problem was a “painful” one and that a solution would probably take years to put in place because of the red tape involved.
Yesterday, the Mater Hospital in Dublin asked the public, where possible, to attend their GP or the Rapid Injury Clinic in Smithfield for minor injuries rather than going to the Emergency Department. The hospital said it was experiencing “very high numbers and protracted wait times”.
Today, O’Regan had similar advice for patients in Tipperary.
“If you have a very acute illness, come to us and we’ll look after you. If you’ve anything that will wait, go to a private hospital and pay, because all of the public hospitals in Munster are in similar – if not quite as bad – situations.”
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I’m delighted to say I’ve never watched his show.
Am I lucky or what?
I find all his interviews odd.
Tubridy giving awkward interviews Is his own doing
Making interviews not awkward is a skill that takes years to develop, and I’m afraid Tubridy has never mastered it. And it’s a reason Graham Norton is a genius at what he does. That’s why the Late Late Show needs to be taken over by a comedian – somebody with the quick wit to defuse potentially awkward moments with a funny comment.
Graham Norton is not a skilled interviewer.
He just sits back, throws formulaic tidbits of gossip at his guests and hopes they respond with funny quips.
The great hosts interview one on one.
You can’t have a profound personal discussion with someone when there’s a boy band jumping around on the other end of the couch.
“profound personal discussion”? Seriously?
When I hear the word Turbidity, I switch channels
Yet you read articles about him.
He’s a nob on huge money. Paid by you if you like it or not. Something wrong there.
Tubridy is one lucky fella, he was rokled ito the best paid job in Ireland especially when you consider what he does for it, chat …… sure yid get someone do that on Jobsbridge and they’d probabky be better. Oh yeah and hel’ll be there for life no natter how shit he is cos its another jobs for the boys camp. No wonder he had a serious problem with Paul Murphy, he’s terrified the Irishtaxpayers/ license fee might wake up and rralise where all the money goes.
How do you the article was read, comments are a chance to express an opinion on an over paid under worked poor presenter!
Is Tubs shagging someone at the Journal?
Coz he’s sure getting a lot of free publicity for a second rate talk show host who 99% of the population think is crap at his job.
They used to use a quote from him saying the Journal.ie was great. Think it was in the app store or something like that. Personally, that would be a kiss of death for me. And when you consider the doing off he gets on here, I had to wonder if, as you say, he was shagging someone at the journal too.
If there was a gun to my head and I had to watch either Tubs or D’Arcy !
I would hope the gun was loaded
So many experts on here. Not crazy about Turbridy but don’t understood the blanket dismissal of his interview performance. Was the same with Gay Byrne, Pat Kenny etc. Yet, if they re on BBC, for some reason they are lauded as consummate pro’s.
Seems like you’re never a prophet in your own land here.
Are you being serious, Graham Norton or Terry Wogan are in different leagues altogether. None of the people you mentioned would hold a top job anywhere outside of Ireland. We’re left with those that can’t make the big league, tubs still tries every summer but no joy.
Gay Byrne was top of his game in fairness and had the work ethic to back it up. I can’t imagine he had “researchers” to come up with interview questions like Tubs does, he did his own home work and knew exactly how to guide an interview.
Pat Kenny is good at doing political stuff, Gay Byrne was and is highly regarded but Tubs is very average c’mon. I get nervous for him when he is interviewing a big celeb, its torture, have to turn him off.
He was OK interviewing Nigel Farage last night but then Nigel is an interviewers dream as he has such a grasp of how the EU has destroyed our freedoms.
Don’t watch the Late Late normally. Tuned in to watch the Outsider’s art segment last night and saw that Farage interview . He was actually likeable. I was expecting a monster from the bits I hear from British TV but I actually liked what he had to say! That interview didn’t get awkward because Farage was so animated and he doesn’t depend on the interviewer to prop it/him up.
which I may add Tubridy is no good at. I like him on radio.
I only tuned in to see Farage but enjoyed seeing Gareth Thomas but other than being happy for the artists and their achievements I am not a artyfarty chap :-)
Tubs is Eoin McLove off Father Ted.
brilliant!
What, Tubridy has no willy???
The man acts like a knob. Exactly zero skills displayed other than the toy show. Have you seen when Richard Dawkins was on. Cringe worthy display of ignorance from tubridy.
Why is Tubridy being mentioned every day now? Mate of yours, Daragh?
Well said James, Norton is a class apart.
I’d love to see interviews here on the journal itself which cut out the middleman. Take Nigel Farage and Gareth Thomas from last night for example, I bet they would make wonderful interviewees in the hands of the journal staff.
If I don’t like watching someone guess what? I don’t watch, I love tubs he’s a decent human being with manners and intelligence, you don’t have to display comedy or over the top flapping around to interview someone. It’s a chat show not a circus.
And if I don’t like watching something I don’t pay to see it…. Oh wait…
I wonder how he can explain his aggressive right wing tactical interview with Paul Murphy? Your a gob….e Mr Turbidy.
Why did RTE order Tubs to visit the journal It was hardly his idea.
ah Ryan O’Neal – “IT WAS IN, I’M TELLING YOU, IT WAS IN!!!!”
LOL
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