Upcoming Events

Dublin | Miscellaneous

no events match your query!

New Events

Dublin

no events posted in last week

Blog Feeds

Anti-Empire

Anti-Empire

offsite link North Korea Increases Aid to Russia, Mos... Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Trump Assembles a War Cabinet Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link Slavgrinder Ramps Up Into Overdrive Tue Nov 12, 2024 10:29 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link ?Existential? Culling to Continue on Com... Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:28 | Marko Marjanovi?

offsite link US to Deploy Military Contractors to Ukr... Sun Nov 10, 2024 02:37 | Field Empty

Anti-Empire >>

The Saker

Indymedia ireland

Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Army Sergeant Travis Decker Murdered His Three Children After Being Denied Mental Health Care at JBL... Sat Jun 07, 2025 04:52 | JBLM Whistleblowers
A corrupt military police force and incompetent Commander who denied emergency mental health care and crisis counseling to an American service member resulted in the murder of the sergeant's three young daughters

offsite link Gaza doctor grieves her nine children killed in Israeli strike Sun May 25, 2025 20:00 | imc
Israeli regime continues it's slaughter
'The children were completely charred'

Paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar was treating victims of Israeli attacks when her children were killed by an Israeli strike on their home

offsite link British doctors working in Gaza describe territory as a ?slaughterhouse? Sat May 24, 2025 00:23 | imc
There?s no food getting in so people are starving,? surgeon Tom Potokar says
British doctors working in Gaza have described the territory as a ?slaughterhouse,? where the patients they are treating are severely malnourished.

Plastic surgeons and orthopedic specialists from the UK are based at the Amal and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis in the south of the territory.

Dr. Tom Potokar, a plastic surgeon specializing in burn injuries, has worked in Gaza 16 times but said this mission had revealed a level of destruction far greater than his last visit in 2023,

offsite link It is time to talk about the Out of Control Immigration. Mon Mar 31, 2025 22:12 | imc
For the last few years since the CV19 scamdemic undocumented immigration into Ireland has surged. No one is allowed discuss it because they do not want any rational debate about it. If you do you are labelled an extremist. However this out of control immigration is fully facilitated by the Irish government and the EU and the shady figure behind the Neo Con movement pushing for endless war, wokeism and globalist agenda.

offsite link [Dublin] National Demonstration for Palestine: End Israeli Apartheid & Genocide Thu Mar 06, 2025 22:35 | ipsc
Sat, 22 March 2025, 13:00 Assemble at the Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, supported by over 150 Irish civil society organisations, has called another National Demonstration for Palestine on Saturday 22nd March.

The march will begin at the Garden of Remembrance at 1pm and finish outside the D?il on Molesworth Street/Kildare Street to bring our demands to the Irish government?s doorstep.

The Saker >>

Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Vandals Graffiti Rayner?s Seaside Home Thu Sep 04, 2025 11:32 | Will Jones
Angela Rayner?s seaside apartment has been vandalised with graffiti?branding her a "tax evader".
The post Vandals Graffiti Rayner’s Seaside Home appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why Do Schools Now Resemble Prisons? Thu Sep 04, 2025 09:00 | Joanna Gray
Pity the schoolchildren returning to their prison camps this September, says Joanna Gray. Most will now be entering premises entirely surrounded with high security fences ? another sign our high trust society is gone.
The post Why Do Schools Now Resemble Prisons? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Was it Really the Hottest Summer on Record? Thu Sep 04, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
It was the hottest summer on record, claims the Met Office. Really? Not according to our most reliable data, says Paul Homewood. 2018 and 1976 were warmer, and only two days topped 30?C, compared with nine in 1976.
The post Was it Really the Hottest Summer on Record? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Sep 04, 2025 00:52 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?At What Point Did We Become North Korea?? Nigel Farage Tells US Lawmakers in Washington About Starm... Wed Sep 03, 2025 19:05 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage today told US lawmakers in Washington that the UK is in an "awful, authoritarian position" and resembles North Korea as he highlighted the appalling treatment of Graham Linehan and Lucy Connolly.
The post “At What Point Did We Become North Korea?” Nigel Farage Tells US Lawmakers in Washington About Starmer’s “Awful and Authoritarian” UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

Lockdown Skeptics >>

Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

Voltaire Network >>

Crisis in the health service: a legacy of Charlie Haughey

category dublin | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday June 14, 2006 16:44author by Rory Hearne - People Before Profit Alliance Report this post to the editors

Crisis in the health service: a legacy of Charlie Haughey

Even Mary Harney admitted recently that the health service is in crisis. At the heart of it is, what the Health Strategy in 2001 stated, the bed capacity crisis and the urgent need to put back 3000 public hospital beds.

Crisis in the health service: a legacy of Charlie Haughey

Even Mary Harney admitted recently that the health service is in crisis. At the heart of it is, what the Health Strategy in 2001 stated, the bed capacity crisis and the urgent need to put back 3000 public hospital beds.
The current government’s solution is, however, not to invest public money in putting those beds in public hospitals or to invest in the health staff to operate them but instead to provide private beds in for-profit hospitals run by multinationals e.g. the American multinational Triad will run the new Beacon Clinic in Sandyford in Dublin. For-profit hospitals will be given massive state handouts of billions in tax breaks and public land and will not give full services, only cherry picking straight-forward elective surgical cases. They are giving us the unequal and ineffective USA health model.
They also refuse to give the pay rise that nurses are demanding and as a result the INO felt it necessary to hold a rally in DCU. People Before Profit will be there to support them. Ensuring staff have proper conditions is essential to ensure we have a world-class health service. Implementation of the nurses’ demands for a 35-hour week and pay rise are vital to retain nurses and keep standards of care at a safe level.
The origins of today’s capacity crisis in our hospitals can be traced back to the 1980s when Charlie Haughey’s government cut 2000 beds. While many claim he did great things, this legacy that has undoubtedly left many to die on trolleys in A& E units cannot be ignored at this time. The Thatcherite belief underlying that decision was the idea that public services should not be funded properly and the private sector should be promoted instead. ‘Comrade’ Bertie in government has faithfully continued this policy of the ‘Boss’. Our public services are still massively underfunded today, despite a budget surplus, while the private sector is being given public services through Public Private Partnerships and outsourcing. A very different philosophy from that of Haughey or Ahern is required urgently, one that delivers public services according to public needs and not private profits.
Rory Hearne
PRO People Before Profit Alliance

Related Link: http://www.people-before-profit.org
author by SWP?publication date Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Do the Socialist Workers' Party not issue statements anymore? Why don't they put forward their own analysis in an open and honest way instead? Even their newspaper has articles from non-SWP members and you can't really tell what is or is not their position.

author by Letterpublication date Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Same points made here in this letter in Daily Ireland

http://dailyireland.televisual.co.uk/home.tvt?_scope=Da...opp=1

 
© 2001-2025 Independent Media Centre Ireland. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. Disclaimer | Privacy