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  • #32
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    i am on twitter if anybody wants to tweet,i have tried to contact all suggested politicians and lo and behold they are on some other social media as they failed to answer back

    i totally understand tds taking a break but surely they would have somebody monitor their accounts

    when i came into hospital last saturday i overheard doctors and nurses talking ,they were saying "you can't release him to his car" somebody replied " i will release him,then i get tick off a box on my list"
    that sank me

    i never thought it would come to this...


  • #33
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,694 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ask to see the hospital social worker, actuality demand to see the hospital social worker.


  • #34
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,457 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Ask to see the hospital social worker, actuality demand to see the hospital social worker.

    Be an idea to keep a record of everyone you meet and deals with you.


  • #35
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Gatling wrote: »
    Imagine if this was all a wind up

    are you for real? that is a very very cynical view of the world?
    would a picture of me in my nappy resolve for you ?


  • #36
    Gatling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,291 ✭✭✭✭Gatling


    FluffyAngel wrote: »
    are you for real? that is a very very cynical view of the world?
    would a picture of me in my nappy resolve for you ?

    Very real ,
    Very cynical
    360_F_102352090_ie3kLjDIvgrT1sxVDknWCUh8PxgMYzM7.jpg




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  • #37
    Two Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 513 ✭✭✭Two Tone


    Very sorry to read it, FluffyAngel. I really hope you get the support you need soon. Don't think of the people who are stifled in helping you as malicious - they are just ordinary people, like anyone; they are simply confined due to the system being such a mess because of years and years of screw-ups causing queues and limited resources. There is no single individual to blame. As Conor74 says, contacting the media might not lead anywhere - if you could be helped immediately you would be. I'd bet not one person here would be of the mindset "I couldn't be bothered helping someone in need of such support even if I had the resources to" - the same applies anywhere.

    There are a lot of people who like to say that all run-of-the-mill public sector workers are monsters who could not be bothered helping people, simply for the hell of it - when they are just ordinary people and fundamentally the same as the people who are so critical of them. But I also agree with others that at this point, all avenues may be worth exhausting, so maybe try as many local media outlets as possible, to see whether this might put pressure on those higher up on the food chain to intervene. C103 is closer to West Cork than 96FM is. Paul Byrne of TV3 is on Twitter.

    All the best.


  • #38
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,808 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Gatling wrote: »
    Very real ,
    Very cynical
    Find another thread to be cynical in.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #39
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    Jesus OP, that is a terrible story. That people like you can find yourselves in a situation like this makes my blood boil. I really hope it works out for you. But dont put your life at risk by sleeping in your car. Can your son or another relative or a friend not take you in for a few nights?


  • #40
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    OP; I don't suppose ye on Vodafone ....?


  • #41
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Winterlong wrote: »
    Jesus OP, that is a terrible story. That people like you can find yourselves in a situation like this makes my blood boil. I really hope it works out for you. But dont put your life at risk by sleeping in your car. Can your son or another relative or a friend not take you in for a few nights?

    im in hospital as sleeping out done me no good,i have one sister who offered a couch 60 miles away,if i left west cork i would have to claim from there

    thank you for your kind words,but my story is repeated across ireland
    The real story is waiting ten months for somthing that could be done in 5/8th of the time now


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  • #42
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,728 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    if people really think ireland is now fine and in recovery, this story reveals all! to put in bluntly, ireland is really in trouble. the most vulnerable of our society have been exposed, in fact we all have been exposed. our society is deeply broken. i wish you the very best op. apologies but ive no advice.


  • #43
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Stigura wrote: »
    OP; I don't suppose ye on Vodafone ....?

    im not,I'm on twitter


  • #44
    Superhorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Superhorse


    Wibbs wrote: »
    To be fair to this country S, it really doesn't. There are plenty of nations, including western industrialised nations where there would be near zero options beyond charity. Ireland isn't particularly bad this way at all. It would be one of the better ones IMH.

    If anything there are so many safety nets that too many chancers take advantage of and have made welfare types suspicious and folks like F can fall through the cracks. All too often because they don't kick up enough of a fuss or have visible lobby groups to support them and it can most certainly be a case of the squeaky wheel gets the oil as far as welfare goes in Ireland.

    I completely disagree we care more for the needy in African nations for example than we do of our own. Sending 600m per annum to Africa and cases like the OP's showing up here. As I said we don't look after our most in need and it's to the shame of us all.

    And I completely 100% reject this "other nations are worse" argument. They may well be but it doesn't excuse our own failure here to look after those who need it most in even the slightest way.


  • #45
    Two Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 513 ✭✭✭Two Tone


    Wibbs wrote: »
    To be fair to this country S, it really doesn't. There are plenty of nations, including western industrialised nations where there would be near zero options beyond charity. Ireland isn't particularly bad this way at all. It would be one of the better ones IMH.

    If anything there are so many safety nets that too many chancers take advantage of and have made welfare types suspicious and folks like F can fall through the cracks. All too often because they don't kick up enough of a fuss or have visible lobby groups to support them and it can most certainly be a case of the squeaky wheel gets the oil as far as welfare goes in Ireland.
    I think this is spot-on. There are the social supports for deserving people in this country, which is great - unfortunately what's not so great is how this is exploited by the self entitled, not the deserving.


  • #46
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    Well, it is in recovery. The problem is that many of these systems have never been anything other than broken. We have a very dysfunctional housing system and it has been made worse by removing any new development of social housing which is plainly, and obviously needed.

    From what I can see the two core political parties, FG and FF are more concerned about ensuring that property prices aren't deflated by opening up more housing as the rising prices is good for mini speculators who bought into the buy-to-let market. It's also good for the banks who are pulling away from having loans in negative equity on their accounts as prices soar.

    It's a case of screw over anyone who didn't invest in bricks and mortar.

    We still provide no solid alternative route to housing other than buying and that isn't necessarily an option some people want (e.g. mobile workers who might be here for 4 or 5 years and can't find quality rentals - that's actually put a few people I know off the IT sector here and sent them state side or to the continent) and then you've people who simply will not qualify for a mortgage due to age, fluctuating income, high risk illnesses (try getting a mortgage after a heart attack of example) etc and absolutely need to be able to lease long term in good quality accommodation, unfurnished, without some speculator breathing down there neck who can sell off at any time.

    We need to be in a situation where there's a stock of housing owned by long term investors. Funds are getting a bad name as many of the ones that are most visible at the moment are vulture capitalist who came in to make a quick buck on distressed assets.

    There are good alternative models out there that need to be running in parallel to mortgage + buy approach but nobody seems to give a toss in reality.

    All I see is a lot of talk and hot air and no action. What action has been carried out has been real finger in the dam stuff. It hasn't addressed anything like the underlying problem that's been building for the last decade or more.


  • #47
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Stigura wrote: »
    OP; I don't suppose ye on Vodafone ....?
    FluffyAngel wrote: »
    im not,I'm on twitter


    Okay. That messed with my head. But, I googled it. Seems, what ever ye doing on Twitter, ye phone has to have a 'Carrier Company'.

    Who do ye pay for top ups? 3ie? Vodafone? Comet? ....?


  • #48
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    this picture was taken yesterday in cuh..there you go cynical world


  • #49
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    That's pretty bad.


  • #50
    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


    FluffyAngel wrote: »
    this picture was taken yesterday in cuh..there you go cynical world

    Seems a strange thing to take a picture of. There are leg bags available too if you want to be more discreet.


  • #51
    Superhorse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 848 ✭✭✭Superhorse


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    if people really think ireland is now fine and in recovery, this story reveals all! to put in bluntly, ireland is really in trouble. the most vulnerable of our society have been exposed, in fact we all have been exposed. our society is deeply broken. i wish you the very best op. apologies but ive no advice.

    The hacks and spin merchants want us all turning on each other, "It's the unemployed fault", "bloody single mums", "council house scroungers" etc.. we all know the types of arguments that crop up time and again and all the while the establishment get away with daylight robbery. Boom/Bust/Emigration the great release/ rinse and repeat the Irish way.


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  • #52
    Two Tone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 513 ✭✭✭Two Tone


    FluffyAngel wrote: »
    this picture was taken yesterday in cuh..there you go cynical world
    Oh dear, it's an awful pity you felt compelled to do that. That comment from Gatling was extremely mean-spirited and unnecessary, but I think most people don't doubt that you're genuine.


  • #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    Seems a strange thing to take a picture of.

    No. The OP took the picture because he knows there are doubters on this thread.


  • #54
    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    No. The OP took the picture because he knows there are doubters on this thread.

    He took it yesterday


  • #55
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,728 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    12Phase wrote: »
    Well, it is in recovery. The problem is that many of these systems have never been anything other than broken. We have a very dysfunctional housing system and it has been made worse by removing any new development of social housing which is plainly, and obviously needed.....

    id go a step further and say our economic and financial systems are not fit for purpose, and are the main source of our dysfunctional social systems. its a mess, and nobody knows how to rectify it


  • #56
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    Seems a strange thing to take a picture of. There are leg bags available too if you want to be more discreet.

    Yes...that's the issue here :rolleyes:


    Not a person being left homeless atal atal :mad:


  • #57
    Specialun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    I assume your twitter handle is:

    daveforgiveness


  • #58
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    He took it yesterday

    I don't understand what you mean?

    The OP took a photo of himself as he is to show the reality and truth of his plight.


  • #59
    12Phase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭12Phase


    OP, any chance you could possibly put a word of warning above that image?
    I fully appreciate what you're saying here and what the situation is, but I opened that image in the middle of a public space here. I didn't expect that at all.


  • #60
    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


    tomwaterford wrote: »
    Yes...that's the issue here :rolleyes:


    Not a person being left homeless atal atal :mad:

    I see the issue, the catheter is an irrelevance to his homelessness I'd have thought. But you jump right up on that high horse and work away.


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  • #61
    FluffyAngel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭FluffyAngel


    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    Seems a strange thing to take a picture of.

    really? to be fair its not everyday that people take the piss out of me,that is prove doctors took the piss

    there could have been a better one as i asked the doctor could i get a selfie
    i learned a valuable lesson,never make a doctor laugh as he is putting a tube in the eye of the storm..poor man couldn't stop laughing:D


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