Monthly Archives: May 2012


Ultrafast rapper and grammar nazi Mac Lethal vents on ‘you’re/your’ abuse, using an obligatory Gotye backing track to posit that ‘possessives and contractions are apparently just something that you used to know’.

He’s strident and we don’t approve of his appropriation of Bill Hicks’ image, but he has a point.

awesomer/mostwatchedtoday

ALL HOSPITALS in the State have been urged to stop using hospital corridors to accommodate patients following a damning report which found the practice was putting lives at risk.

An investigation by the Health Information and Quality Authority has severely criticised Dublin’s Tallaght hospital for its “persistent tolerance” of leaving patients on trolleys for long periods.

Other hospitals were also struggling to deal with overcrowding, the report found. On a single day in August last year, an audit by the authority found 24 out of 25 emergency departments failed to meet targets for waiting times. A further nine hospitals failed to provide any data.

Related: 116 Hours

Hospitals to be called in by Minister over safety concerns (Irish Times)