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The emergency department in the hospital.

The €2bn New Children's Hospital is now '92% complete' - here's what it's like inside

CHI estimates that the first patients should be in the doors by summer 2025.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF  the New Children’s Hospital is now 92% complete according to the development board, with the first patients expected to be admitted by at least summer 2025. 

The Journal had a tour of the new facility – which it has been claimed will be the world’s most expensive children’s hospital – with some of those managing the project on Monday.

The hospital will provide, once opened, 380 inpatient rooms including 20 that will be part of a new CAMHS unit, 60 critical care beds, and 93 day beds. 

A hospital school and a third level education centre will be a part of efforts to make life as normal as possible for children and families living there long term. 

With some of the rooms nearing the stage where they will be handed over by the developers to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) for commissioning (which will involve the installation of equipment and other final touches), the media have were invited along to view the project’s progress. 

BAM Contractors Ltd, the Dutch-owned construction company that won the contract for the hospital, has been involved in a back and forth with the development board, CHI and the Government about delays in the project’s progress, which was hampered by Covid-19.

room One of the inpatient rooms.

The escalating final cost of the project, now projected to eventually come in well over the €2 billion mark.

The final price point is still in the process of being hashed out in the Commercial Court as the State has pushed back on various price revisions. 

BAM has say costs have increased due to inflation and other factors. 

Phelim Devine, the project director with the NPHDB, says the focus should be on the money the efficiencies of the hospital will save through more effective treatment, rather than the overall price tag on the project, as it is a “50 to 100 year investment in the future of children’s healthcare in Ireland”. 

The critical care, inpatient, and emergency department units are the closest to completion, with some rooms appearing close to finished bar final touches. The main concourse, however, still largely looks like a building site, and it is evident where the remaining work will need be done. 

Parents will be able to sleep in the rooms, in their own bed in the inpatient unit, and those with children in critical care will be able to stay in a family accommodation area that is “dressing gown wearing distance” away from their kids’ rooms, according to Tracey Wall, the Clinical Transformation Lead Children’s Health Ireland with Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). 

The gardens on top of the roof of the hospital, which surround its elevated helipad for emergency helicopter landings – the first of its kind in the Irish health system – have views of the Dublin city. 

main concourse The main concourse.

A playground that has been designed with all children in mind, from those undergoing chemotherapy to wheelchair users – and with a coffee pod to boot, it is easy to imagine the difference they will make to families living between home and hospital long-term. 

There are other design features that will doubtlessly improve life for patients and their families too. The grid on the windows means natural air will be ventilating the rooms.

On the critical care unit, where the constant demand for the services of nurses and specialist staff means that they often have to eat their lunch on the ward in case they are called on urgently, there is a balcony that staff can step out on to to get some fresh air.

The reception desks are wheelchair accessible, so staff can engage with all parents and patients as normal across the desk, without any barriers in the way. 

The inpatient rooms all have natural light, ensuites with accessible showers, and plenty of plugs for phone chargers, which the CHI youth advisory council told designers was an absolute must – alongside good wifi access. 

play area A play area pod on an inpatient ward.

For parents – who can already stay in some rooms at the existing Temple Street and Crumlin Hospitals – new services like a laundrette, a gym, and a kitchen will surely make a huge difference. 

Wall from CHI says that while the overall number of rooms in the new hospital will be roughly equivalent to what is currently provided between the three existing sites, the models of care being provided will be very different, with a focus on daybeds and getting children who are ready to go home in a position to do so. 

There will also be a greater provision of intensive care beds available (60 compared to the 32 in Temple Street and Crumlin combined). 

However, Wall said that it is “highly unlikely” that all 60 beds will be in use when the hospital first opens its doors. 

“We will start with a smaller number and then scale up from there, as more staff are available,” she explained. 

on top of the helipad Tracey Wall CHI and Phelim Devine from the development board on top of the helipad, where CHI expect around 4 helicopters landings a week once the hospital is open.

Wall adds that the introduction of the electronic patient record, combined with the majority of children’s health staff being on one site, will greatly improve how treatment is provided. 

“With this digital record, there will be one source of the truth for a child’s medical history, and anyone treating them in any part of the hospital will be able to access it,” she explained. 

The New Children’s Hospital’s electronic patient record will also feature the introduction of an online ‘patient portal’, where service users will be able to access their charts, upcoming appointments, and information about their care team. 

The New Children’s Hospital will enable a new focus on neonatal intensive care. While infants requiring this care are currently admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care Units, they will now be in a specific 18 bed unit. Another key difference will be each infant in intensive care having an individual room, which is not currently the case. 

The progress on the Children’s Hospital means that walking through it, it is now easier to visualise what it will be like once it is complete. 

Today, construction staff were busy at work across the building, specifically in the concourse where there is still a lot of work to be done. 

BAM site manager John Clancy who accompanied NPHDB officials on the tour, said that the last 5% of work on a site prior to completion can be very labour intensive. 

He also said that the media reportage on the negotiations have at times impacted on staff morale at the site. 

“It does of course, because you are going home and people are asking you, ‘So when will the Children’s Hospital be done?’ As if you are building it by yourself. I know our engineers would get that a lot. We don’t get out message out there a lot, but the fact is everyone is doing what they can physically here, and it is hard work,” Clancy said. 

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    Mute Martin Matthews
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    Mar 1st 2017, 6:44 AM

    Only 5? You could include NAMA, Red Sky, SIF funding of loyalist “community groups, slashing the Arts Council grants to directly fund the kick-the-pope marching bands, granting bursaries to bonfire builders, creating a fund that almost exclusively deals with orange lodges, the leader of the UDA openly telling his merry band of murderers and drug dealers to vote DUP….. There’s probably more but I haven’t had my morning coffee yet.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 6:55 AM

    My thoughts exactly. DUP behaviour has brought this election. Thought they could do as they like without being brought to account. It’s called power sharing. The DUP would do well to remember that.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 6:58 AM

    The €500000 received by the dup by a Scottish conservative to place pro-brexit adds in gb media

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    Mar 1st 2017, 10:58 AM

    The sooner the people of NI turn their back on the bigoted extremists currently in power, the better.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 2:32 PM

    Diarmuid you become what you think.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 6:09 AM

    The DUP are a bunch of dinosaurs!

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:53 AM

    There are dinosaurs on both sides. Both parties have one eye firmly on the past. Much like the Republic they are getting the governance they are voting for and if most people continue to vote for the extreme on either side the unrest will continue.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:54 AM

    Is there not a Moratorium in place,

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    Mar 1st 2017, 9:14 AM

    @Peadar Ó Gréacháin:

    Not yet. The election isn’t until tomorrow.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 9:23 AM

    It’s put in place 24 hours before the polls open….

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    Mar 1st 2017, 10:36 AM

    @Peadar Ó Gréacháin:

    Not so Peadar a chara. In the six counties, the moritorium will begin at half past midnight tonight. In the 26 counties, it begins on 2pm the day before polls open at an election.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 10:50 AM

    @Gearoid Mag Leannáin: Yes and hypocrites as well. While they rant about SF’s past, the DUP, supports and has the full support of UDA terrorists as shown in the following article in the Belfast Telegraph:
    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/uda-begs-voters-to-back-dup-in-northern-ireland-assembly-vote-35486168.html
    The DUP has also been awarding large grants of tax payers money to community groups controlled by the UDA in Belfast
    http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/northern-ireland-first-minister-arlene-foster-refuses-to-back-calls-for-uda-boss-dee-stitt-to-quit-charter-ni-35223489.html
    and to refurbish Orange halls while withdrawing funding from Irish language projects and those involved in integrated education. On Sammy Wilson’s comparison of SF to ISIS, the DUP is the political wing of the UDA, which used the exact same murderous tactics as ISIS did in Paris by going into crowed bars in the North (with AK47s supplied by British intelligence) and spraying all innocent men, women and children with gunfire. Not much difference there from ISIS, Sammy, but they are your bed-fellows. Look up Greysteel massacre, Sean Graham bookmakers’ shooting and Annies bar and many, many, many more.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 10:57 AM

    @ Tir Eoghain Gael commented: I stand corrected……

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    Mar 1st 2017, 10:57 AM

    Will Gorry’s Puppet become Arlene’s deputy, or give power back to the Tories in London?

    Decisions decisions.

    Quick, just go to another Provo terrorist rally!!

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    Mar 2nd 2017, 12:24 AM

    @Gearoid Mag Leannáin: Tey mightt be but they will tell you theEarth is 6000 years old all the same and the Pope is the Anti Christ bt if tereaeirBibles as the ayywould kw thhBie never says that???

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    Mar 2nd 2017, 12:26 AM

    But if they read their Bibles then they would know the Bible never says that, bloody wifi keyboards?

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    Mar 1st 2017, 6:55 AM

    Be good to see what the SDLP and UUP could do together.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:01 AM

    It would stop a lot the bigotry and hatred that DUP and SF members and supporters have. The north would be a lot more pleasant.

    Any centrist party is good for a country when you remove the extremes of hard left and hard right

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:27 AM

    @Charlie Wrex: chas did you miss the bit were your mates in the uda threaten people to vote for the DUP.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:31 AM

    @charles wrex; yeah the UUP/SDLP opposition is working so well that the first ‘opposition paper’ presented to last assembly was a wholly UUP paper written WITHOUT any input or even knowledge of SDLP. So much for joint responsibility in opposition.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:48 AM

    Joe, why belch an informal fallacy? Its like being in junior infants again. Heres some lego you big baby, go amuse yourself -or better still try adding something that sounds even vaguely intelligent for a change.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:50 AM

    Sorry Joe, an informal fallacy is a strawman argument. Thought id save you the confusion. You’re welcome.

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    Mar 2nd 2017, 12:27 AM

    @Charlie Wrex: I suppose anything with sticky back plastic???

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    Mar 1st 2017, 7:16 AM

    SDLP #1 , UUP #2

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    Mar 1st 2017, 12:08 PM

    “we made a break through in 1998 (& then again in 2005) when all sides (incl both governments) shared the one agenda and wanted to achieve the same goal”
    Again, with respect Shane, that is a seriously naive analysis. Or should I say factually inaccurate, given that the DUP, the largest party in the assembly campaigned to reject the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and have made no secret of the fact that they are in a power sharing arrangement because they have to be, not because they want to be.

    “This involved all sides showing a real respect for the view of others”
    All sides showed respect?? Are you actually for real?? Was Arlene showing respect when she refuted Martin McGuinness’ suggestion that they both go together to a north & a republic game at the Euros, and let him go to the republic game by himself? Was Gregory showing respect when he stood in the assembly and mocked the Irish language by sneering “curry my yogurt”? Were his colleagues showing respect when they roared in approval at his “joke”? Was he showing respect a few months later when he appeared at the DUP conference holding a pot of yogurt and repeating his “joke”? Was Arlene showing respect when she described Irish Language activists as “crocodiles”? Was Paul Givan showing respect when he scrapped an children’s Gaeltacht grant just to have a pop at SF at the start of the RHI crisis? Was Paul Givan showing respect when he awarded over 90% of the ‘Community Halls’ scheme grants to Orange Halls/Protestant Church Halls? Are the DUP showing respect by campaigning for state uniformed murderers to be granted immunity from prosecution? Are they respecting the will of the electorate across the six counties by going against their expressed wishes in the Brexit vote?

    “(& then again in 2005)”
    At the St Andrew’s Agreement? The “agreement” where the DUP have refused to fully implement the bits that they don’t like? And you say that it was everyone wanting the same thing??

    “12 yrs on- SF still won’t fully acknowledge the desperate impact of the armed struggle (ref: Ms O’Neill’s honouring the IRA)”
    They have repeatedly acknowledged the hurt caused. To date, the IRA are the only group in the conflict to have issued an apology to the families of all non-combatants it killed. In terms of prosecutions, there have been over 25,000 republicans who spend over an accumulated 100,000 years in prison during the conflict. I assume you don’t need reminding that the number of state forces prosecuted for their murders stands to date at 4? Yes 4. Each of whom was released in under 5 years (beore any GFA early release agreement) and yet the DUP are now claiming that the state forces are the ones being treated unfairly and should be legally immune from prosecution (even though they essentially have been throughout anyway). And yet you say SF are the ones not acknowledging the past wrongs? Michelle O’Neill is a republican. She, like anyone, is perfectly entitled to remember the dead. You can’t on one hand complain about people not being tolerant of others views, and on the other, admonish someone for choosing to remember her deceased neighbours in her own way.

    “and the DUP (who’s participation was always begrudging)”
    I thought you said that all sides shared the one agenda and wanted to achieve the same goal? Fact is, they don’t and didn’t. Unionists do not do power sharing happily.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 6:57 AM

    Alot more scandals in that dump

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    Mar 1st 2017, 7:01 AM

    It would seem the courage/leadership and generosity that got us out of the Troubles onto the road of peace and progress has been totally eroded and we are back to the sectarian pandering and political bickering of yesteryear- all that is different from then to now is that people are not voting with bombs and killings in the news.

    This entrenchment by all parties into mutually irreconcilable self interested positions (with both Governments too self absorbed to really care) leaves the people of NI exposed to the risk of a resurgence of violence on our streets- as Gerry Adams famously said of the IRA, ‘we haven’t gone away, you know.’

    All it will take for the downward spiral to gain momentum is for a Republican inspired atrocity to be met by British arrogance (or ignorance- take your pick), spurred on by Unionist intransigence and the whole enterprise could unravel.

    The failure of all sides to use the opportunity of peace on the streets to develop policies and strategies that would nurture mutual understanding and reconciliation is an utter shame.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 8:08 AM

    With the greatest respect, Shane, that “sure both sides are as bad as each other” analysis is just plain lazy and plain wrong. The DUPs cv of recent years has included scandal after scandal, and controversy after controversy….RHI waste and blatantly obvious corruption in that scheme, Red Sky, Nama, shady donations for backing Brexit in England, Paul Givan using his authority as Communities minister to ensure that over 90% of applications to the “Community Halls” grant scheme were won by Orange Halls and Protestant Church halls, their use of almost 100 petitions of concern to veto marriage equality/motions of no confidence, Sammy Wilsons “ethnics out” remark caught on tape, their repeated descriptions of homosexuality as “an abomination” and “unnatural” and to breastfeeding as “voyeuristic”, that hurricames in the USA were caused by “homosexuals” and that homosexuality should be “criminalised”; Gregory’s (reapeated) “curry my yougurt” mocking of the Irish language, the sectarian removal of a minor Irish language scheme for helping children go to Gaeltacht courses, the spending of £7,000 to rename a fisheries protection vessel from Irish to English, Arlene Foster referring to Irish language activists as “crocodiles” who shouldn’t be fed, her refusal to accept Martin McGuinness’ suggestion that they go to the republics and the norths games at the Euros together (she only went to one of the norths games while Martin went to one of each on his own), their instigation of violent flag protests, their funding of £5m to UDA linked groups and subsequent declaration by the UDA that people should vote DUP on Thursday,, their current crusade in Westminster to ensure that members of the security forces involved in murder during the troubles should get total immunity from prosecution. I could go on all day. But for you to suggest that Sinn Féin are just as bad is just waffle. Martin McGuinness made constant efforts to reach out to unionism and those efforts were never recipricated or even acknowledged. After years of criticism from unionists for SF refusing to meet British monarchs, McGuinness went on to meet the queen many times and has repeatedly noted that no unionist has even once privately nor publically commended him for it. And as for your claim about a return to violence because Gerry Adams said of the IRA that “we haven’t gone away you know” – two things: he said “they”, not “we”. Secondly, he said that in 1995 (22 years ago) before disbandment and independently verified full decommissioning. You not think you’re maybe ready to let that one go? Lastly, you claim that “both sides” actions are self serving. Which again doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. SF before Christmas made several attempts to save Arlene Foster’s bacon and in doing so save the assembly. This despite the fact that over the last number of years their vote in tbe north has declined due to many in their own base accusimg them of being too soft with the DUP. So making weeks of intense efforts to dig Arlene out of a major hole in order to try save the institutions was anything but self serving.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 11:10 AM

    @ Tir Eoghan Gael… I am not suggesting both sides are equally wrong but… we made a break through in 1998 (& then again in 2005) when all sides (incl both governments) shared the one agenda and wanted to achieve the same goal… This involved all sides showing a real respect for the view of others… 12 yrs on- SF still won’t fully acknowledge the desperate impact of the armed struggle (ref: Ms O’Neill’s honouring the IRA) and the DUP (who’s participation was always begrudging) are feeding on the fears of their supporters). It may not be the fault totally of the parties but their respective political bases seem entrenched in old tribalism and the Governments have turned a blind eye and so the generosity of the GFA and other agreements have been largely ignored.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 11:55 AM

    @Tír Eoghain Gael: Wow, you seemed to leave out every atrocity that SF’s henchmen carried out to over the years, funny that. Revisionist much?

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    Mar 1st 2017, 12:09 PM

    @Shane Bradley:

    “we made a break through in 1998 (& then again in 2005) when all sides (incl both governments) shared the one agenda and wanted to achieve the same goal”
    Again, with respect Shane, that is a seriously naive analysis. Or should I say factually inaccurate, given that the DUP, the largest party in the assembly campaigned to reject the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and have made no secret of the fact that they are in a power sharing arrangement because they have to be, not because they want to be.

    “This involved all sides showing a real respect for the view of others”
    All sides showed respect?? Are you actually for real?? Was Arlene showing respect when she refuted Martin McGuinness’ suggestion that they both go together to a north & a republic game at the Euros, and let him go to the republic game by himself? Was Gregory showing respect when he stood in the assembly and mocked the Irish language by sneering “curry my yogurt”? Were his colleagues showing respect when they roared in approval at his “joke”? Was he showing respect a few months later when he appeared at the DUP conference holding a pot of yogurt and repeating his “joke”? Was Arlene showing respect when she described Irish Language activists as “crocodiles”? Was Paul Givan showing respect when he scrapped an children’s Gaeltacht grant just to have a pop at SF at the start of the RHI crisis? Was Paul Givan showing respect when he awarded over 90% of the ‘Community Halls’ scheme grants to Orange Halls/Protestant Church Halls? Are the DUP showing respect by campaigning for state uniformed murderers to be granted immunity from prosecution? Are they respecting the will of the electorate across the six counties by going against their expressed wishes in the Brexit vote?

    “(& then again in 2005)”
    At the St Andrew’s Agreement? The “agreement” where the DUP have refused to fully implement the bits that they don’t like? And you say that it was everyone wanting the same thing??

    “12 yrs on- SF still won’t fully acknowledge the desperate impact of the armed struggle (ref: Ms O’Neill’s honouring the IRA)”
    They have repeatedly acknowledged the hurt caused. To date, the IRA are the only group in the conflict to have issued an apology to the families of all non-combatants it killed. In terms of prosecutions, there have been over 25,000 republicans who spend over an accumulated 100,000 years in prison during the conflict. I assume you don’t need reminding that the number of state forces prosecuted for their murders stands to date at 4? Yes 4. Each of whom was released in under 5 years (beore any GFA early release agreement) and yet the DUP are now claiming that the state forces are the ones being treated unfairly and should be legally immune from prosecution (even though they essentially have been throughout anyway). And yet you say SF are the ones not acknowledging the past wrongs? Michelle O’Neill is a republican. She, like anyone, is perfectly entitled to remember the dead. You can’t on one hand complain about people not being tolerant of others views, and on the other, admonish someone for choosing to remember her deceased neighbours in her own way.

    “and the DUP (who’s participation was always begrudging)”
    I thought you said that all sides shared the one agenda and wanted to achieve the same goal? Fact is, they don’t and didn’t. Unionists do not do power sharing happily.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 12:11 PM

    @Scundered:

    “Wow, you seemed to leave out every atrocity that SF’s henchmen carried out to over the years, funny that. Revisionist much?”
    I was talking about the parties commitment to power sharing and behaviour towards the other party in the executive during that time. I didn’t mention any troubles atrocities committed by any side, you absolute dope.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 1:05 PM

    @Tír Eoghain Gael: I suppose when trying to project an image of being a considerate peaceful sort, it’s best not to mention a history of extreme violence.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 1:34 PM

    @Scundered:

    There was extreme violence on all sides during the conflict. It’s been debated on this site ad nauseum. I didn’t mention atrocities committed by any side, and you are repeatedly bringing up atrocities committed by just one side. Says more about you than me. This discussion is about recent political developments. If you don’t want to involve yourself in that discussion, or are incapable of doing so, kindly clear off elsewhere.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 2:19 PM

    @Scundered: likewise. You ignore the atrocities of the DUP/UDA who are supporting/funding each other today. The DUP is the political wing of the UDA, which used the exact same murderous tactics as ISIS did in Paris by going into crowed bars in the North (with AK47s supplied by British intelligence) and spraying all innocent men, women and children with gunfire. Not much difference there from ISIS, but they are the DUP’s bed-fellows. Look up Greysteel massacre, Sean Graham bookmakers’ shooting and Annies bar and many, many, many more. Anne Cadwallader’s book – Lethal Allies, a series of Ombudsman’s reports, etc.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 10:34 AM

    Why does The Journal feels the need to explain issues in ‘Politics for Dummies’ idiots guide fashion? Rather patronising don’t you think? After all, it IS a part of our own Country going to the Polls. I’m sure vast majority of your readers are well aware of the issues involved.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 11:48 AM

    Just stop voting for SF and DUP, these extremist parties don’t have the mindset required for considering other viewpoints. The younger generation are the only hope for change to steer away from extreme views, they are sick of it.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 12:13 PM

    @Scundered:

    Do me one favour. Quote from this document what you regard as Sinn Féin’s “extremist” policies?
    https://www.sinnfein.ie/files/2017/MANIFESTO_ENGLISH.pdf

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    Mar 1st 2017, 12:51 PM

    @Tír Eoghain Gael: There is a big difference between a wish list and the reality of what they done up north, google the troubles if you are in any doubt about the reality.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 1:04 PM

    @Scundered:

    Good man yourself…

    -”SF are extreminst”
    - “Why?”
    - “Because….eh…because 40 years ago!”

    Cop yourself on. If you’re happy to call them an extremist party in this election, then man up and quote their extremist policies from their manifesto.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 1:28 PM

    @Tír Eoghain Gael: Let’s hope you never become an employer, where a candidate’s history is not important, sure let’s just ignore all that and listen to the bit about where they see themselves in ten years.

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    Mar 1st 2017, 1:35 PM

    @Scundered:

    In your own time there, scundered….

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