Red Kev wrote: » My own experiences of pharmacies during my Dad's illness is that most of them are blatant rip offs. My Dad was on about 700 tablets a month, I used to sort them by hand every week, then the local chemist got the blister pack sorter in. Started at €15, then €17, €20 and €25. When it went to €35 I said forget it, I'll go back to doing it by hand, so the price went back to €25. I picked him up at the community Centre one day and they'd all been talking about the prices, turns out they were being charged everything from €10 to €30, no matter how many tablets they had. There was a woman there who is charged £4 in NI for the same service. This kind of price variation seems to be common in the area, €20 is the norm. The thing about blister packs is that for the elderly it's a great help as there's no confusion involved and as a result it's something that's been taken advantage of by chemists. I've a second cousin who opened two pharmacies in rough areas of Dublin solely with the intention of distributing prescription uppers and downers to the locals, all perfectly legal. He did it with a chemist from the UK, who let it out that they made 4-5 times the profit in Ireland on that gear that they made in the UK.
Atlantic Dawn wrote: » When a town has more pharmacys than pubs you know it's a big money racket.
Atlantic Dawn wrote: » Today... De 20 bags of undelivered post found in some house in Louth Should priests be getting paid at the funerals Social services card, the old are confused about them An Irishman has died in Australia, he emigrated to there in 1976, can we find any relatives. Damascus gate killing, perhaps another visit to this story
misslemon wrote: » I'm guessing Joe will give the pharmacies a miss. There's an advert on the Liveline page for Lloyd's. Now that might be generated for me because I read the news story on it, but I think I remember hearing Lloyds pharmacy adverts during the Joe Duffy show before. Not long to wait now anyway.
monkey9 wrote: » Is there a link at all to the missing post story? I had a load of Ticketmaster tickets not arriving around this time last year. Wrote into the GPO and everything about which they investigated and found nothing. It was definitely someone stealing in the sorting office.
somesoldiers wrote: » We counted 8 on one stretch in Wexford town recently, must be a lot of sick people in Wexford 6 addresses below am sure there are moreFehily’s Pharmacy, 28 S Main St, WexfordFortune’s Pharmacy, 82 N Main St, WexfordBoots’s Pharmacy, 54 N Main St, WexfordHassett’s Pharmacy, 9-11 N Main St, WexfordSherwood’s Pharmacy, 2 N Main St, WexfordSam McCauley Chemists, 8/10 N Main St, Wexford
somesoldiers wrote: » Were they for a Garret Brukes concert? if so I have bad news for you
somesoldiers wrote: » they were the main sponsor of LL until a few months back
foggy_lad wrote: » All the shopping centres will have a pharmacy too
somesoldiers wrote: » yeah the above are all on the one stretch of street, not to mention other streets, outskirts and shopping centres
misslemon wrote: » I hope Joe bears a grudge over them not paying them the big bucks anymore. I could do with some entertainment.
TheHomeService wrote: » Will Joe plug the meeting he is hosting about de croime in the unadulterated kip?
