Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

He has an alibi for where he was on that night, I think, otherwise you would be starting to wonder.

not this time, he didn’t play it. I was rightly pissed off when he cut it off at the “punchline” de udder day

But Joe doesn't do criticism of the health service and especially not health care workers.

He had a turn in February. He's grand now. Not living on a diet of coddle and free cheese sandwiches from funerals, he could outlive Joe yet.

I wish anyone with a stroke or any brain affliction well. One thing about such is that any affliction affecting the brain does not selectively affect mobility versus cognitive; there’s always a double-whammy where the brain is concerned, it serves many functions, but of course overall intellect can be well preserved.

The nurses and doctors who listened to that girl scream in agony for hours are wonderful, wonderful, wonderful people.

Although having witnessed that place first hand recently, I can't imagine working there.

There is a fcuking Public Accounts Committee taking an age looking at RTE squandering a few million - primarily for politicians to get votes - while the waste of hundreds of billions in the HSE gets a free pass. Some country we are alright.

While it is down to each individual to decide, it is also down to their manager to assess the impact of their absence. Obviously being a nurse you are vulnerable to every bug under the sun. Sickness among nurses I am sure is common. But 5 in the one day is an epidemic. Why didnt the manager get contract staff in?

I too thought the consultants sounded careless or lazy but, listening to one consultants testimony, he was on call for 48 hours and had appointments the following morning.

You know what, we have all seen it. It's bad management.

On-call for 48 hours Greys Anatomy style where you can get a nap or a ride in the oncall room, is all well and good in a US hospital, but in understaffed, over worked Irish hospitals, being oncall for 48 hours most likely means working for 48 hours straight. Airline pilots arent allowed work hours like that, why are doctors?

Today, KT Hannon, she sez she's in for a 'little whoyle' for Joe…

• Mudder & Baby Homes compo.
• How meaningful are State apologies
• Canadian couple visiting Kerry, arrived 48 hours ago, they have had the best of and worse of times, the ball of scrap rental car broke down…wunder were they riding the hole off the clutch so to speak?
• Hoarders, what do you hoard, has it got out of control?

Re hospital staff calling in sick, when you work in a hospital you are subject to catching everything the sick patients bring in with them and generously share around de hotstipple. A feverish staff member is likely to faint on duty if they persist working, a nurse with the highly contagious Norovirus will be a walking vomit projecting canon in the corridors of care.