Month: Oct 2021

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“…..Apparently, the callous cretins are never to blame for fuelling and prolonging a pandemic – that should, by now, be flickering out like a fire’s embers in North America – if the idiots had any measure of faith in scientists who once engineered effective vaccines for polio, the measles, and chickenpox, rather than a gallery of spent, forgettable celebrities and lunatic conspiracy theorists….” ALJAZEERA. Where are the Strong Words, words like “vaccine hesitant” or even a stage further “vaccine apartheid” which are too mild for the meaning of what a Pandemic called COVID-19 is all about?

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Sunday was World Mental Health Day. In the UK 12 men commit suicide each day; Suicide is the leading cause of death in men under the age of 45. Do we know the statistics in Ireland? We know that there is a crisis emerging in mental health services in Ireland, (as in the UK), and the under provision of adequate funds and staff will make the lives of our people and sadly our young people vulnerable to harm, anxiety, depression and suicide. The Pandemic called COVID-19 has created its own additional demands to a service that is so under-funded.