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Sarah Burke on RTÉ's Drivetime?

  • 21-10-2010 4:58pm
    #1
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭


    Anybody listening to her this minute? She's the health correspondent on the programme who does research on particular areas of the health system. At the moment she is seriously trying to hold back the tears. You can hear her voice quiver. She predicated all her comments by saying 'As you know Mary this is an issue very close to my heart'.

    It's very moving; I'm surprised she's able to keep talking, the poor thing.

    Anybody know anything else about her?


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  • #2
    hotmail.com
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,089 ✭✭✭✭hotmail.com


    I don't doubt her sincerity, but I'm sick of listening to her go on about health issues.


  • #3
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    hotmail.com wrote: »
    I don't doubt her sincerity, but I'm sick of listening to her go on about health issues.

    What else do you think she should "go on about"? She's the health correspondent!


  • #4
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    She wrote a book - "Irish Apartheid, Healthcare Inequality in Ireland" and has a blog

    http://saraburke.wordpress.com/


  • #5
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,644 ✭✭✭cml387


    She seemed to have terrible difficuly distinguishing between 600 thousand and 600 million. That would tend to make me doubt her credentials.


  • #6
    Rubik.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,185 ✭✭✭Rubik.


    I would have thought a PhD in Health Policy would be credentials enough.


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  • #7
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    cml387 wrote: »
    She seemed to have terrible difficuly distinguishing between 600 thousand and 600 million. That would tend to make me doubt her credentials.

    Yeah that's what I thought... If she was dealing with these figures all the time, as she suggested, she would have no problem remembering the 600million - 1 Billion cuts that Mary Harney was talking about..


  • #8
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    I have listened to her input over the past 2 yrs & I have to say I'm very unimpressed with her contributions. Has very little understanding of how the health service is delivered in this country. Long on generalities and very short on specifics. Her "research" falls very short of what I would consider minimum standard. Has never picked up the phone to ring any senior manager in the HSE or in DOH. Most of her contributions are her own opinions rather than substance. If she has a Phd in Health Policy, I despair.


  • #9
    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    An inter cert student could tell her the problem.

    The health service costs too much to run.


  • #10
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    She's on with Vincent Browne now...


  • #11
    honeybear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,648 ✭✭✭honeybear


    Normally, I only half tune in to her columns but I thought today's contribution re the health system in France was very good.


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