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RSA to replace thousands of defective high-visibility vests

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  • #2
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,236 ✭✭✭Idleater


    I like the way the final paragraph in the article obviously has relevance to the main content.


  • #3
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    Bloody ridiculous.

    So much wrong with that article, the last sentence is the worst.


  • #4
    dub_skav
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭dub_skav


    Idleater wrote: »
    I like the way the final paragraph in the article obviously has relevance to the main content.

    Bit weird alright, seems to be trying to draw a link between these substandard visibility aids and recent deaths.

    Tenuous link and a bit insensitive I would have thought


  • #5
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭marketty


    This is assuming that any of the people who received them are still alive. I've yet to see any peer reviewed research proving that this is the case.


  • #6
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    Idleater wrote: »
    I like the way the final paragraph in the article obviously has relevance to the main content.

    Well obviously if the RSA had done the recall earlier...

    How long have they known? Why didn't they act sooner? How many people might have been saved by a swifter response?


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  • #7
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Won't someone think of the children!!!!


  • #8
    JMcL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,357 ✭✭✭JMcL


    Were Optipro supplied with the visibility criteria for the vests as part of or following the tendering process, and if so, are they being held to account for the items, all 350000+ of them, being defective, or is it a case of yet another quango induced tax-payers money black hole?


  • #9
    Jawgap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,297 ✭✭✭✭Jawgap


    It's hardly a 'black' hole if it's full of [not very] hi-viz gear:D


  • #10
    hardCopy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    hardCopy wrote: »
    Bloody ridiculous.

    So much wrong with that article, the last sentence is the worst.

    I just realised I got one of these at the weekend.

    Could I now be held liable if I give this to someone as a gift and they get hit by a car?

    If I give it to someone I don't like, what are the chances of them being hit by a car?


  • #11
    Dermot Illogical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,131 ✭✭✭Dermot Illogical


    hardCopy wrote: »
    If I give it to someone I don't like, what are the chances of them being hit by a car?

    Pretty much a certainty. Choose wisely.


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  • #12
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,853 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    dub_skav wrote: »
    Bit weird alright, seems to be trying to draw a link between these substandard visibility aids and recent deaths.

    And marginally substandard at that.


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