The point is that the people of Meath should be entitled to as good a service as the people of Blanchardstown.Our politicians ought to have known this and should have made sure that the hospital was fit for purpose.In this they failed and jumping on the bandwagon after the horse had bolted is political hypocracy.
Personally I believe that the buck stops with the relevant Ministers for Health over the years.Mary Harney was Minister at the time I got the stroke and the blame lies at her door,as far as I am concerned.I would gladly swap a splash of paint for a lifetime disability.Of course the splasher has been prosecuted .
We will wait and see what 5 of the 6 Meath T.D.s are in the Government parties do about s it.Dont hold your breath.
Anyhow the home county of the instigator of the smoking ban has again excelled itself in sticking its nose into others business by introducing a myriad of health and safety regulations to effectively stop people from digging the graves of family members.That these should be conceived in Cork is no surprise to me .Any mindset that could conceive buildings regulations to so torture law abiding smokers is so perverse that the capacity for nonsense is limitless.
I have remarked that the outgoing administration thought more of the rights of a stag than they did of the stroke patients in Navan Hospital.Well now I can tell you that the present crew think more of the rights of a bike than they do of a smoker.Outside the front door of the Hospital is a brand new bike shelter ,prominently marked “no smoking”.A few yards away the ill patients who happen to be addicted to a legal pastime have to take their drags in the spilling rain.Fair dues to ya Michael and to your jackboot health zealots.No doubt yer chests swell with pride at your achievements.
Not to put a tooth in it,ye have also ,by the vindictive nature of the ban,decimated the pub trade,created a new brand of smuggling crime class and crucified the poor yet again.Put simply the rich can afford fags whatever they cost but the poor cannot.But then again they probably don’t vote anyhow and are easily cowed.
Any how demonising and picking on minorities is nothing new in Europe and if nothing else we are such good Europeans that we have to lead by example ,don’t we..After all like the Frank Sinatra song New York ,we voted twice and our Euro friends in our political groupings will surely help us out of our beggar ststus .Won’t they.And of course they won’t bully us out of our 12.5% Corporation Tax rate.
It is indeed ironic that a man was jailed in Monaghan this week for a breach of the smoking regulations ,while an advocate and admitted user of an illegal drug is sitting in the Dail and the people who bankrupted the country and cause death ,despair and the daily suffering endured by us all ,are all as free as the wind,many drawing pensions the smokers are funding.Some circus.
You couldn’t make it up.
Right on there Daithi about the "smoking ban" mentality. Like the late great Mark Twain said (a long time ago but of timeless relevance).... Your kind of people are always ciphering out how much a man’s health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years’ indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a glass of wine at dinner, etc. etc. You never see more than one side of the question. You are blind to the fact that most old men in America smoke and drink coffee, although, according to your theory, they ought to have died young; and that hearty old Englishmen drink wine and survive it, and portly old Dutchmen both drink and smoke freely, and yet grow older and fatter all the time. And you never try to find out how much solid comfort, relaxation, and enjoyment a man derives from smoking in the course of a lifetime (which is worth ten times the money he would save by letting it alone), nor the appalling aggregate of happiness lost in a lifetime by your kind of people from not smoking. And you never dare to laugh in the daytime for fear some poor wretch, seeing you in a good humor, will try to borrow a dollar of you. What is the use of your stringing out your miserable lives to a lean and withered old age? What is the use of your saving money that is so utterly worthless to you? In a word, why don’t you go off somewhere and not be always trying to seduce people into becoming as ornery and unlovable as you are yourselves?
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Now they have driven the unfortunate patients out onto the road for a drag.We live in a total dictatotship and its getting worse by thr day.
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