Would you locate a national children’s hospital in a land-locked city-centre site, with no parking for parents and nowhere for them to stay overnight?
Would you justify it by saying that they can bring their sick children to hospital by public transport? Would you tell them they can bundle their child with cancer onto a [...]

There’s an almighty row going on at the moment about the contracts being offered to new hospital consultants.
An incredible uproar.
And the reason? Well, the government is going to hire more consultants, but they’ll have to work exclusively in the public health service. They won’t be able to have private patients under the new [...]

So the lawyers aren’t going to suffer a crippling reduction in fees after all. What a relief.
It looked for a while as if they were going to be forced to manage on a measly €1000, but no. Common sense prevails and their fees remain at a richly-deserved €2500. Per day.
Now, I know [...]

Irish readers will know about the dispute in Cork about opening the new maternity hospital. The nurses’ organisation says the proposed staff levels are too low for safety and they won’t operate the hospital unless numbers are increased. Well and good. I don’t know. (Not being a nurse, or a [...]

You might have seen this Bock rant a little while back concerning the deal made between our government and the RC religious orders whereby we, the taxpayers pay all but 127 million euros of compensation claims. This might seem like a lot of money for the religious orders to pay, until you realise that [...]