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awec

Yea, I think they were waiting on suitable support for the DRM video functions of HTML5 before they could switch.

Wang King

Came up to Dublin yesterday, firstly my fave restaurant Pulau Pinang is now a Japanese one called Fujiyama ...not a happy bunny at all.
Secondly, it seems to me that the homeless situation is getting a hell of a lot worse! Have never seen so many of them at once, not all drug addled zombies either, it's frightening

.ak

The place over BK on O'Connell st? Yeah. That place was amazing. The curries were awesome. Haven't been to the Japanese yet but it doesn't look great tbh. I think it's big selling point is it's BOYB.

Wang King

.ak wrote: »

The place over BK on O'Connell st? Yeah. That place was amazing. The curries were awesome. Haven't been to the Japanese yet but it doesn't look great tbh. I think it's big selling point is it's BOYB.

That's the one, always liked it when I came up
Long day ahead of me here in Crumlin now, just grin and bare the delays

.ak

You should try M&L if you like Chinese, it's just around the corner. One of the best restaurants in town, order from the chef's recommendation/chinese menu. They do a mix of proper northern Chinese cuisine and some southern cantonese stuff too, but not quite as rough n ready as the places on Parnell st.

Wang King

.ak wrote: »

You should try M&L if you like Chinese, it's just around the corner. One of the best restaurants in town, order from the chef's recommendation/chinese menu. They do a mix of proper northern Chinese cuisine and some southern cantonese stuff too, but not quite as rough n ready as the places on Parnell st.

Next time maybe, I'm looking to get the fck out of here asap

dregin

Wang King wrote: »

That's the one, always liked it when I came up
Long day ahead of me here in Crumlin now, just grin and bare the delays

What's brought you to Crumlin?

Wang King

dregin wrote: »

What's brought you to Crumlin?

My daughter has been going since she was 6 months old, shes 7 and a half now and finally got the news we wanted today, no more trips up needed

mfceiling

Wang King wrote: »

My daughter has been going since she was 6 months old, shes 7 and a half now and finally got the news we wanted today, no more trips up needed

That's brilliant news. Best of luck going forward!!

Wang King

mfceiling wrote: »

That's brilliant news. Best of luck going forward!!

Thanks very much, it took 7 attempts at ivf in the HARI unit at the Rotunda to get her.....so I'm glad to see the back of Dubland for a while yet

mfceiling

Wang King wrote: »

Thanks very much, it took 7 attempts at ivf in the HARI unit at the Rotunda to get her.....so I'm glad to see the back of Dubland for a while yet

Reminds me of the joke....

Belfast man and his wife are trying for a baby for months and nothing is happening. Wife says to husband "what about ivf"? Husband says "if I can't do it, then as sure as hell I'm not getting the paramilitaries involved"!!!!

dregin

Wang King wrote: »

My daughter has been going since she was 6 months old, shes 7 and a half now and finally got the news we wanted today, no more trips up needed

Ah nice! If ya ever need parking, hit me up - we live across the road from the children's hospital.

Wang King

dregin wrote: »

Ah nice! If ya ever need parking, hit me up - we live across the road from the children's hospital.

I could have popped in for breakfast
Thanks very much, but I'm all done with the hospital now
Also....I don't drive

dregin

Wang King wrote: »

I could have popped in for breakfast
Thanks very much, but I'm all done with the hospital now
Also....I don't drive

Great to hear I don't drive either - hence the driveway that is eternally empty :P

CatFromHue

Crumlin's Children Hospital is such a kip of a place and annoying to get to, I can't believe they're going to re create the same problems by putting the hospital in James's.

Wang King

CatFromHue wrote: »

Crumlin's Children Hospital is such a kip of a place and annoying to get to, I can't believe they're going to re create the same problems by putting the hospital in James's.

Try traveling from Tralee
The building is past it's best by date, but the staff pour their hearts into the place, can't fault them one little bit

CatFromHue

Ah yeah they do in fairness but yeah that building is a joke.

Buer

Wang King wrote: »

Try traveling from Tralee
The building is past it's best by date, but the staff pour their hearts into the place, can't fault them one little bit

Could never work there. Couldn't do it. Wouldn't do it. Would be a wreck after a month.

Massive respect for those that do.

RuggieBear

spent a good bit of time in crumlin as a child. actually my brother ended up on a poster they used for years. He was in visiting me and they reckoned he fit the bill of photogenic baby. i'll see if i can find it on google

Wang King

CatFromHue wrote: »

Ah yeah they do in fairness but yeah that building is a joke.

It's nearly 60 years old I think. It should have been replaced 25 years ago
My child's doctor worked in Auckland, he was 1 of 11 ortho surgeons in the city... In Ireland he was 1 of 1 up until last year.
Madness
Hopefully you're not in need of long term attendance there

Wang King

Buer wrote: »

Could never work there. Couldn't do it. Wouldn't do it. Would be a wreck after a month.

Massive respect for those that do.

I consider myself an emotionally strong person, and not easily upset. But 2 years ago my daughter had to stay in the isolation ward, and I had to sleep in the room with her.
The sounds of terminally ill children screaming in pain that night meant I spent the night walking the corridors and watching the nurses just going about their "normal" caring and loving routine, not for anything could I do that job, can't even call it a job, you can only do something like that if you have some deeper calling or meaning in your life I think

Zzippy

Wang King wrote: »

It's nearly 60 years old I think. It should have been replaced 25 years ago
My child's doctor worked in Auckland, he was 1 of 11 ortho surgeons in the city... In Ireland he was 1 of 1 up until last year.
Madness
Hopefully you're not in need of long term attendance there

Have a mate from down your way whose child needed cardiac surgery to fix a hole in his heart. When he was diagnosed they were told it would be keyhole surgery. By the time he got to the top of the waiting list 2.5 years later, he had grown so much (and so had the hole) it was no longer feasible to do it by keyhole and he had to have open heart surgery. :rolleyes:

Wang King

On a lighter note, some woman in her mid 50's I'd guess sat down at my table and she's demolishing a 6 pack of druids glen
I may have taken a sneaky pic

molloyjh

Wang King wrote: »

I consider myself an emotionally strong person, and not easily upset. But 2 years ago my daughter had to stay in the isolation ward, and I had to sleep in the room with her.
The sounds of terminally ill children screaming in pain that night meant I spent the night walking the corridors and watching the nurses just going about their "normal" caring and loving routine, not for anything could I do that job, can't even call it a job, you can only do something like that if you have some deeper calling or meaning in your life I think

It's strange. My sister is a nurse and worked for a short while with terminally ill children. I asked her if it was as depressing as it sounds and she said it wasn't really. Yes there were terrible elements to it, but she got a huge amount of job satisfaction from it. Being able to make these kids smile and enjoy what time they had left was quite fulfilling apparently. I suppose you have to be able to leave that stuff behind you when you go home to a degree though too and some people can do that while others can't. I'm not sure I could.

.ak

Me in my job right now.

Zzippy

.ak wrote: »

Me in my job right now.

Join the club!

Swiwi.

.ak wrote: »

Me in my job right now.

Didn't realise you viewed the forum in quite that way.

dregin

CatFromHue wrote: »

Crumlin's Children Hospital is such a kip of a place and annoying to get to, I can't believe they're going to re create the same problems by putting the hospital in James's.

They aren't putting it in James' - Crumlin will remain as a support hospital. Also, James' is ridiculously easy to get to by both public transport and car. They're building a massive car park into it atm.

TheGoldenAges

^ That's how I'm feeling about Exam season right now, it sucks.
Alas once it's over I'm done the year and it's ERASMUS next year!

Buer

dregin wrote: »

They aren't putting it in James' - Crumlin will remain as a support hospital. Also, James' is ridiculously easy to get to by both public transport and car. They're building a massive car park into it atm.

I'm not sure about ridiculously easy, to be honest. It's right on the edge of the city centre. Serious traffic demands on anyone getting there (and it's going to worsen significantly now) for most times during business hours. With a huge number of people getting there from outside of Dublin, it's a major hindrance on them.

The car park also isn't going to cover what they expect in terms of requirement in the near future. Feasibility studies suggest it's going to fall short in terms of what is necessary.

Most importantly, though, is the fact that we'll be in the exact same situation in 30 years. Our population is booming. The Dublin 8 location gives no scope for further expansion. A green field site on the M50 would have made far more sense, to my mind.