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Info on anti-aircraft guns? I have an auld anti-aircraft round here, I inherited from my grandfather. De bang has been removed from it. My research into it's maker points to it being an obscure ordnance of a type Gubbermemt bought after de Emergency. Obscure = One Maker = Expensive = Obsolete. Nothing changes.

22mm I think. I'll have a look later.

I’d be expecting a consignment of footwear from a certain Boardsie after requesting by very polite postal letter. But no redemption yet. I den artha thing that could have happened, or anything about a bit of a streak of the green creature or anything like that.

for just a moment thought I was talking about Tubs, get confused sometimes.

I feel terribly for him, I really get worked up in myself over unnecessary suffering which happens waaaay too often.

It doesn’t just happen to “ordinary” people either, I know the late Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald’s daughter, she once most kindly collected from a colonoscopy. He never complained through his bad health. Had heart and lung issues, but kept up the good fight. In his final weeks, daughter Mary was minding him, they lived in connected adjacent house.

Mary saw him go rapidly downhill and drive him to SVUH A&E. Mary would never ever be the type to say “this is my father ex Taoiseach” just “my Dad here is very sick and I’m dead worried about him”. A relatively junior doctor saw him, he was packed off home with a prescription to give to the chemist in Ranelagh next morning for antibiotics.

Mary’s Dad got worse and worse through the day, she phoned the private consultant he had attended previously re heart in Mater Private. Took a few connections to get his number and through to him personally. Mary had an extremely sick father at home gasping for breath, the man could hardly swallow the chemist’s antibiotics. The Mater private consultant was off duty so a bit hard to track down , but he went into action as many do in such circumstances, to get at least palliative bed, because it was likely he could not clear this pneumonia. He died peacefully, but not before family were in anguish about how they would get help for him, considering public hospital threw him away, quite literally.

Theres a myth about VIPs getting priority care, they get shifted to private care, and if your own private consultant happens to be in Bahamas at the time we’ll fook you. I’ve witnessed this kind of thing.

There was genuine deep compassion overall at first, I think most of us have experienced it with this and other horrendous war type situations.but it’s a fact of life that people’s compassion wears out, in fact it serves as a good thing in away as people are then beyond the shock stage and can usefully coordinate assistance.

The human mind adapts to the craziest of situations, it accepts the unacceptable in certain circumstances. It’s a fascinating area of study.

As regards medical care, I’ve had an awful lot to make various comparisons. Firstly a nurse or doctor reflects their own individual nature. But I can say at this lint after many decades of care that I’m racist, I have found Pakistani male doctors to be the most empathetic by quite a long shot.

I think they probably have seen in me at times a daughter, a sister, a mother etc. they are not afraid to show full empathy, they aren’t starched up. That is my repeated experience such consultants.

Joe has competition today from da RTE Senior Management Team. Their show kicks off at half one on da RTE News and Dail TV channels.

Madsen 20mm Cannon. According to Wikipedia the Irish Gubberment got 2 of them on light tanks and 8 on armoured cars back in the 30s. The date code is 36 which would correspond to us getting the Landsverk L-60 Tanks. We still have one in Collins Barracks according to Wiki. Are they interested in a donation, so to speak?

Day of Romantic activities…

Most guys go for this (or make equivalent):

However Joe goes for an alternative:

LoveLine stories: Including those about valentines who have died.