Crumlin Hospital Closures - Parents Need Your Help

Jesus my heart fúcking sank when I read this. I'm really at a loss for words for you and your family going through this and all the other families that this and other utter fúcking stupidity rampant in this country at our highest levels(across the political spectrum too).

I watched my own father die in an Irish hospital because of cutbacks and sheer fúcking incompetence. I feel your mixture of anger and pain too. I don't mind admitting that after I buried the man I would have gladly run down many of the people I had to deal with and fight with to get the most basic of care of him in what shouldn't have been his last days. Even now years later, now that the initial shock is well gone I am convinced he would have lived longer and gone home to his family if he had been treated in many other countries health system. Medical types in the close family say the same as they work in such countries.

Now he was old and he had lived his life, so that's bad enough, but when they put the health of our children on the line it's a step too fúcking far. Too far.

IMHO faith in politicians is largely pointless. When you have people put forward just because their father was a TD, enough said really. It's beyond pathetic. Our system is utterly fúcked and with a few notable exceptions(the aforementioned Mr Higgins being one, even though I wouldn't always agree with his politics) I think you're on a hiding to nothing.

As others said, shame them into it. Get the media involved. The Joe Duffy's of this world while often smirked at can make a difference. More than your local TD that's for damn sure. Gerry Ryan, the newspapers, TV3 are always looking for a story. Shame these bastards into doing something.