Ingrid Miley- Short Rant

Bang Bang

After years of EMT/Paramedics fighting for proper recognition, months of fighting to keep the pay cuts at bay, arguing that we are professionals with professional titles ie; EMT, Paramedics, Advanced Paramedics.

Ingrid Miley on RTE News tonight, talking about Wednesday's 24/7 Alliance march, she turned and called us "Ambulance Drivers"..!!!
Thank you RTE and Ingrid Miley, it took forty years to shake that title, and just when we need our proper professional title of Paramedic to be heard in the news, you go and rubbish it:mad:

Hooch

So we shouldnt call ye ambulance drivers....no???!!!!:p:p:D:D

*only messing, I fully agree*

brayblue24

Bang Bang wrote: »

it took forty years to shake that title, and just when we need our proper professional title of Paramedic to be heard in the news, you go and rubbish it:mad:

Yeah, I noticed that myself. Great bit of research there by RTE

sgt.bilko

In fairness to the newsreader, she read it off an auto cue. Your rant should be against the news editor !

Klunk001

You might as well get used to it. RTE still don't know the difference between the Irish Air Corp and the Irish Coast Guard , and the odd time they do get it right they think the IRCG have one helicopter .

sgthighway

Why don't one of you get the AAP to contact them for the future.

Ian Beale

http://www.rte.ie/news/contacts.html
There's a contact e-mail for the editorial section.

Leo Demidov

sgthighway wrote: »

Why don't one of you get the AAP to contact them for the future.

Ambulance drivers union?

Delancey

Bang Bang wrote: »

After years of EMT/Paramedics fighting for proper recognition, months of fighting to keep the pay cuts at bay, arguing that we are professionals with professional titles ie; EMT, Paramedics, Advanced Paramedics.

Ingrid Miley on RTE News tonight, talking about Wednesday's 24/7 Alliance march, she turned and called us "Ambulance Drivers"..!!!
Thank you RTE and Ingrid Miley, it took forty years to shake that title, and just when we need our proper professional title of Paramedic to be heard in the news, you go and rubbish it:mad:

I suppose this means that when Binmen have a dispute and Ingrid Miley fails to call them ' Sanitation Engineers ' then it's their turn to hassle RTE.
Honestly guys .... get over it - I'd have thought there were far more important things to worry about.

Trojan911

delancey42 wrote: »

I suppose this means that when Binmen have a dispute and Ingrid Miley fails to call them ' Sanitation Engineers ' then it's their turn to hassle RTE.
Honestly guys .... get over it - I'd have thought there were far more important things to worry about.

In fairness to the OP, if a body has earned the right to be referred to a specific title then it should be afforded to them.

In my opinion, the title "Ambulance Driver" does not reflect the advanced multi skills one has studied hard to earn.

maglite

Where do people actaully see the prehosptial "profession" starting???

amdublin

delancey42 wrote: »

I suppose this means that when Binmen have a dispute and Ingrid Miley fails to call them ' Sanitation Engineers ' then it's their turn to hassle RTE.
Honestly guys .... get over it - I'd have thought there were far more important things to worry about.

Oh come on.

Ambulance driver and paramedic mean completely different things to Joe Public (me!)

Paramedics should be called their correct title.

Op - suggest change your thread title to RTE not Ingrid Miley.... Plus send in complaint to RTE.

Esel

I agree. Ambulance Driver is a bit too close to Ambulance Chaser for comfort. You could get sued!

Seriously, I support the OP here.

Bang Bang

delancey42 wrote: »

I suppose this means that when Binmen have a dispute and Ingrid Miley fails to call them ' Sanitation Engineers ' then it's their turn to hassle RTE.
Honestly guys .... get over it - I'd have thought there were far more important things to worry about.

I worked and studied damn hard to earn my professional title of Paramedic.
I gained my qualification and graduated through University College Dublin, not the Irish School of Motoring.

As for far more things to worry about, yes we are trying to protect our salaries and conditions, degrading and destroying our professional title on national television is not helping the situation.

drill

brayblue24 wrote: »

Yeah, I noticed that myself. Great bit of research there by RTE

In fairness she mite have read the hompage :http://www.frontlinealliance.ie/


"The 24/7 Frontline Alliance represents workers, including gardai, nurses, fire fighters, prison officers and ambulance drivers, who deliver emergency and other vital services to the public, often at considerable risk to themselves. It is committed to protecting its members’ interests and the services they provide to the public."

TheNog

drill wrote: »

In fairness she mite have read the hompage :http://www.frontlinealliance.ie/


"The 24/7 Frontline Alliance represents workers, including gardai, nurses, fire fighters, prison officers and ambulance drivers, who deliver emergency and other vital services to the public, often at considerable risk to themselves. It is committed to protecting its members’ interests and the services they provide to the public."

Well spotted Drill.

I see the website is managed by INOs technical team so I have sent them the email below

To whom it may concern,

I am a member of An Garda Siochana and thought you should be made aware of a small indiscretion on your website. It concerns a point raised on a thread on Boards.ie here http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055732545. A long standing member of boards is an EMT and is not particularly happy with a specific comment from Ingrid Miley broadcasted on RTE news on the 6th November who refered to Paramedics as "Ambulance Drivers". On post number 10 of the thread from another poster shows the introduction of the 24/7 Frontline Alliance website which does indeed say "Ambulance Drivers" as opposed to the correct title of "Paramedic". A small mistake but I would appreciate if it could be reviewed and corrected for our fellow emergency services colleagues.

meathstevie

You'd quickly know an RTE "newsreader" is a journalist if you dared to make the mistake calling them newsreader...

Shield

meathstevie wrote: »

You'd quickly know an RTE "newsreader" is a journalist if you dared to make the mistake calling them newsreader...

True enough. It'll be interesting to see if TheNog gets a reply.

TheNog

Got a reply just now below. I have taken out the persons name. Fair play to them.

Dear ************,



I wish to acknowledge receipt of your email re the wording re Ambulance Drivers, I apologise on behalf of the website team, a change in wording will be made, I have passed your email on to the Public Relations personnel for the 24/7 Alliance.



Regards

Ian Beale

Quick too, website was updated.
The 24/7 Frontline Alliance represents workers, including gardai, nurses, fire fighters, prison officers and ambulance personnel, who deliver emergency and other vital services to the public, often at considerable risk to themselves. It is committed to protecting its members’ interests and the services they provide to the public.

Hooch

psni wrote: »

True enough. It'll be interesting to see if TheNog gets a reply.

Well done nog. Good thinking and fair play for stepping up to emailing them!

deadwood

Well doone on getting that clarified.

Now, just one question.


Who the [EMAIL="f#@k"]f#@k[/EMAIL] is driving the ambulances now?:eek:

Smokey Bear

Deadwood is it not in your 58th type of allowance to drive ambo