Leo Varadkar resigns as Taoiseach

I sometimes get almost depressed when I see how perfect some boards posters are across multiple social and environmental issues. What saves me is the hope that many are just as flawed as myself in the real world🤣

Got to imagine it’s cases of events who want to be able to advertise “former UK Prime Minister”, but also have a tight budget!

The public are not stupid and they can spot a decent genuine person from a self serving phoney.

The problem is to succeed in party politics you have to be a self serving phoney at least until you get into power, and more likely until that power is solidified.

I wouldn't be quick to judge Harris as we don't know how or if he will change after getting the top job. I thought Varadker was really going to do something positive for the country after his speech about being the leader for those who go to work in the morning. Turned out he was the worst taoiseach in the history of the state.

Let's at least give Harris a chance.

That's an online crank though...

You really are p*ss taker.

How many villages and towns are there in County Clare that still have to find their way to overcrowded A&E in Limerick or Galway.

Or do you think everyone should live in Ennis and Shannon.

Sitting waiting for ambulance in the middle of the town of Kilkee or the village of Liscannor is the same as sitting in a farmhouse outside either of these.

The ambulance still may be hours away.

You and your mates keep telling yourselves that it was all because he was gay and of non Irish descent. 🙄

The thing is I bet most people couldn't give a feck if he was riding a sheep and wearing a turban if he was actually doing some good for us the Irish people.

It was himself that first brought his sexuality into it, it was himself that brought divisive modern left liberal identity politics into mainstream Irish political life all because it appealed to the twitter loving generations.

I suppose you reckon we overwhelmingly rejected his referendums because we are homophobic and racist or maybe we are just country thickos and urban scumbags.

Of course you turn to the right wing politics as if Ireland is full of neo nazis.

Besides you never ever actually stand back and wonder why are real right wing parties on the rise throughout Europe.

How did he bring "modern left liberal identity politics into mainstream Irish political life"?

What do I think of the job that doctors and nurses are doing in Limerick hospital? I really don't have an opinion.

What do I think of the job that local management are doing in Limerick hospital? I really don't have an opinion.

What do I think of the job that regional HSE management are doing in the area? I really don't have an opinion.

What I do know is that the HSE have been provided with the funding, with the resources and with the support from government. In some places they are doing a good job, and in others it is not working out. The reasons lie in one of the three questions above, which one provides the answer, I don't know, but it is not the fault of central government or the Departmental civil service.

I just go on what I do know. There are problems in Limerick hospital. They are not caused by lack of funding, they are not caused by governmental policy. Somewhere else in the system is the root of the problem.

Edit: What has any of it to do with Leo? I won't develop any further unless you provide some link to the thread.

Bullcr**.

We have a critical mass of people in the Limerick urban area, about a 102,000 as far as I know.

Yet we have a fooked situation where the A&E in main hospital is overrun and there are not enough hospital beds in the hospital itself.

The people could all live in Raheen/dooradoyle in tower blocks ala Singapore and it makes fook all difference.

Investment in beds and front line staff, investment in primary care in the communities is what is needed not more managers.

No one ever brings up this crap about everyone wanting a hospital, university, bank, public transport hub at the end of every boreen except the government and public sector apologists like yourself and the ideology greens who despise anyone living rurally.

It is also just a snide condescending way of referring to people that don't happen to live in our major cities, and the main one in particular.

And before you say this has nothing to do with old Leo.

He is the guy meant to be in charge of our state and part of that is the states services to our people.

Or are you a true Leoite in that you only take the good news stories and runaway from the inconvenient bad news.

Pure rubbish

This has been going on for yonks, the HSE heads are getting paid enough.

The money is there, they should sort it out.

How come other hospitals can work this out and the same problems arise in the same areas.

This is a standard response from those who stoutly and blindly defend government policies of the day. Not just you - you see it here all the time on the immigration debate threads

First of all, yous insist everything is fine & dandy.

Frustrated members of the public then point out problems that are chronic.

Yous then sort of acknowledge this but deflect by putting the blame on individuals or bodies for not doing more.

Then back to insisting everything is fine & dandy. Frustrated members of the public then point out problems that are chronic

Rinse & repeat.

Imperfect as the service are they are a long, long way from what we had here in the past never mind what you’d find in the third world.