Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan took to his Facebook page to share a story of visiting our crumbling health system with a sick child and the conclusions he drew from that night. A lot of it touches on aspects of what Jane McAlevey discussed in that video we shared yesterday. Expectations, they are a changing. “Please share. We don’t really expect much. An odd good summer and for the children not to … Read More
#ruckusAlert: Trust In The Green.
Trust in the Green in aid of Pieta House is happening again this year, on Saturday 27th of September on the bandstand in Stephens Green. There will be a feast of music in the park from 10am till 7pm, including MC Soom T from Glasgow, Ras Tinny, The Bionic Rats, Pia Dunne, Kiruu, Mr. Upfull, Revelation Sound System, Noel Sweeney (poetry), Patricia Lohan Ruff Chuff Crew, Djs; King Damai, Sophis … Read More
#ruckusAlert: Trust In The Green Hut Takeover in D7.
Some pals of rabble have put together this gig upstairs in The Hut on Friday to cover the running costs of the Trust In The Green’s soundsystem showdown on September 27th. You can expect reggae, electro swing, drum n bass, RnB and Surf from those on the bill. The door price is snackbox cheap at €5. The now annual Trust In The Green event raises awareness around suicide prevention. Soom T is on the line … Read More
JTB Challenges The Stigma Around Mental Health.
We’ve featured JTB’s work in a past print edition of rabble, where it sat alongside an article talking to survivors of the Magdalene laundries. Now she has an exhibition to raise money for Niteline, they’re a listening and support service for students. On Monday September 22nd large blank canvases will be scattered around the walls of Filmbase and she will set about using them to portray her depression. This will all take … Read More
The Missionary Position Or How The Irish Learnt To Have Sex.
Whilst the rest of the western world was in the midst of the STI-swapping frenzy that was the sixties, Ireland was on its knees waiting outside a confession box. Sheila Lafferty, gets under the covers and gets to grips with Irish sexual cluelessness. A sordid mix of Victorian neurosis and Rome rule meant that sex in 20th-century Ireland was a silent taboo that only happened behind closed doors, under blankets, with … Read More
Patients Not Customers.
A recent article in The Washington Post once again highlights the horrible inequality and inadequacy of American healthcare. With support from the graph of a 2012 Commonwealth.org extensive survey (click here) the Post shows the hugely expensive, profit-motivated US system come dead last overall while the UK’s NHS tops the survey overall and in most individual categories. Of course the NHS is under massive attack from a vicious Tory government and … Read More
An Unhealthy State Of Affairs
Did Dr James Reilly, Minister for Health, know the company believed to be recommending closing Portiuncula maternity hospital was ‘Health Partnership’ set up by his appointee as Chair to the Hospitals Group which acts on the report? An exchange in the Seanad last night between the Cathaoirleach Paddy Burke (Fine Gael) Senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Féin) suggests as much. The exchange took place under House privilege and allegations … Read More
Free For Those Who Can Afford It
Junior Health Minister Alex White (Labour) appeared on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland this morning and was asked if he intended to push for a charge instead of the proposed universal free GP care. Following the introduction of free GP visits for the under 6’s it is expected that Minister James Reilly will introduce universal free GP visits by 2016; asked several times whether he could rule out point-of-access charges as the … Read More
Non Drinkers Die Younger
A newly released study shows that regular drinkers are less likely to die prematurely than people who have never indulged in alcohol. … it found that mortality rates were highest for those who had never had a sip, lower for heavy drinkers, and lowest for moderate drinkers who enjoyed one to three drinks per day. Of the 1,824 study participants, only 41 percent of the moderate drinkers died prematurely compared to … Read More
The Life of Reilly
Over the last 20 years, oversight for Ireland’s public health has rested in the hands of many prime advertisements of healthy lifestyles. P. Kolbe takes a look. Brian Cowen and Michael Noonan reigned in the 1990s – men whose figures were honed by life-long dedication to strenuous pint-swilling regimes. At the turn of the millennium Michael Martin provided a break from the tradition of clinical obesity as the primary qualification … Read More