Health
No risk to patients as hospitals use stock x-rays to save on film costs
In a further twist to the x-ray scandal that first emerged at Tallaght hospital The Mire has learned that most hospitals in the state have been using stock x-rays to save on the cost of film. »
HSE warns ambulances not to take members of public to hospital
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has warned ambulance staff not to carry patients to hospitals in any circumstances. »
Parents urged to ridicule fat kids in battle against obesity
A multi-million euro initiative aimed at tackling obesity in children has recommended that parents and teachers publicly ridicule fat kids for their own good. »
Minister for Health position may be discontinued if Harney resigns
Fears that Mary Harney may resign as Minister for Health have prompted panic on all sides of Leinster House where no one wants to succeed her. »
Health and safety officers to save costs by working from home
The Government has issued instructions for all health and safety officers working in the public sector to work from home for the foreseeable future. »
Free sunbed sessions for the unemployed a ‘cynical ploy’
A Fine Gael spokesman this morning condemned the Govenment for “the cynical ploy” of offering free sunbed sessions to the unemployed. »
You have to be mad to stay in a psychiatric ward, report finds
An indepth report by the state’s mental health inspectors has found that you would have to be completely mad to stay in many of the country’s psychiatric wards. »
The Mire reflects on a pig’s mickey of a year – twisted and crooked
It was a year that began with a visit from several British MPs to Dail Eireann to study the mystifying way in which our TDs resisted resigning. »
Obesity epidemic linked to appalling injuries during sex
The obesity epidemic is causing couples having sex to suffer a variety of bizarre injuries according to GPs and A&E departments across the country. »
Social partners claim credit as workplace fatalities at all time low
The Government is confident that it will be able to completely eradicate workplace fatalities and injuries by 2014 if the economy and unemployment trends stay on their current course. »