“1st #abortion due to take place in Our Lady of Lourdes on Monday morning. Please pray hard that the #mother will recognise the #baby as a gift from God”
— Ray Kinsella (@ProfRayKinsella) January 6, 2019
Ah.
Meanwhile…
Close to one thousand people marched through Drogheda [yesterday] to protest at proposals to change the name of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital.
The hospital, which is one of the busiest acute hospitals in the country, was bought by the HSE from the Medical Missionaries of Mary in 1997.
It is understood that staff were asked which of three other names it should be called: Drogheda University Hospital, Drogheda Regional Hospital or Drogheda General Hospital.
Hundreds march to protest name change of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital (Independent.ie)
I thought they changed the name of that hospital?
What aout the “Michael Neary Centre for Gynecological excellence” for the new name?
I think it has a nice ring to it.
Or the Dr.Michael Shine Centre for Child Sex Abuse, he abused over 300 children in that hospital
Jaysus, that seems like it could be a breach of privacy legislation
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Sorry Ray, done me best
How the hell does Ray Kinsella know about the medical treatment of a private citizen?
the name of the hospital is irrelevant. Every one in the area and those using it refers to it as ‘The Lourdes’ and that won’t change anytime soon.
You get a huge +1 from me
Totally agree with your comment
I’d disagree on your name change theory. Change the name now and over time the new name will become embedded.
Sure, some people will continue to refer to it as ‘The Lourdes’ but they will, in time, become the minority.
My mam still calls it Amiens Street station – old habits die hard.
I still call the Point it the Point Depot. Not the Oh Too or the Tree or for whatever it is now called.
But you don’t call it Amiens St Station and you can bet that everyone younger than you calls it Connolly
Lansdowne Road theory.
That is a case of corporate sponsorship (like The Point / 3 Arena). Naming rights that can be bought or sold will never fully replace original names.
What is proposed in Drogheda is different, this is not a case of corporate sponsorship
I prefer to call it The Palindrome.
“Ray Kinsella” – it’s like a made-up name in Fair City for a taxi driver with a speaking part (out of his backstop).
Question: Is it Kin-Sella or Kinsell-Ah?
YOU DECIDE.
We did decide, centuries ago!
Only hipsters with notions would ever say Kinsell-ah
My well-groomed hipstery beard disagrees, actually.
Marathon
Jif
PMPA
CIE
UTV
and the FCA.
AnCO… FÁS… Solas…
+ Lansdowne Road, the Free State and the Pox…
Windscale : Sellafield closer.
10K -> Mini-“Marathon”
But didn’t mini-marathon change to fun-size-snickers? I’m confused.
Drogheda. Good spot for a backstop. Neary a dull moment.
utterly disgusting
but this goes back to what I wrote at referendum time to anyone getting their head in a twist with likes of @newsjustin & some of his difficult to process views
this is a war to them
it never ends, just more battles
until they are eradicated from involvement in state machinery particularly hospitals & schools they have unnecessary relevance & control & this kind of crap will occur
I wouldn’t describe my opposition to abortion as war.
It’s just civil discourse. You know my views on the matter of abortion. They aren’t fundamentally altered by the referendum and new abortion legislation.
You’re correct though that civil rights debates and campaigns do go on. Like how those who championed the right to abortion after the 1983 referendum went on. I don’t know if there’s any country in the world where abortion is legal, that there isn’t some form of civic/political resistance to it.
Prochoice activists didn’t picket hospitals or surgeries for not providing abortions in 1983. They didn’t intimidate pregnant women and girls going to their appointments, or any other person going in for an appointment.
They continued campaigning was my point.
Of course they didn’t picket hospitals or GPs, as it makes no sense to picket nothing….the absence of something.
I’m not sure about picketing GPs and hospitals. I suspect there’s a right and wrong way of approaching that. But I can see why people might do it…if they believe there’s a human rights violation going on. Same way someone might picket a Direct Provision Centre, prison or Garda Station.
What do you think the right way to do that could look like? Do you think the current pickets are wrong?
Yeah but YOU HAVE LOST. Gone home.
Serious privacy breach by Kinsella which needs to be investigated – also, if this is a hospital medical procedure and not oral pill termination then it is most likely a fatal fetal abnormality and the patient should be protected from the stress and abuse of any protest.
Serious privacy breach by Kinsella which needs to be investigated
– also, if this is a hospital medical procedure and not oral pill termination then it is most likely a fatal fetal abnormality andthe patient should be protected from the stress and abuse of any protest.FTFY
I agree re privacy issue. But fyi, a significant minority of “straightforward” <12 week abortions do end up being surgical abortions.
Thanks Cian – I hope your condescending wrist-slap gives you a warm fuzzy feeling of self worth this morning. D**k!
only thing that please him is a mention in dispatches from leo, that or another homeless death..
If the abortion goes ahead does that mean that:
a) prayer doesn’t work,
b) god doesn’t care,
c) there is no god, or
d) all of the above
“When I was back there in seminary school there was a person there who put forth the proposition that you can petition the Lord with prayer.
Petition.
The Lord.
with Prayer.
YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD, WITH PRAYER!”
Is a hospital’s procedures list now open to the general public? surely all this information is confidential? It certainly should be.
Mr Kinsella could just be taking a stab in the dark. Maybe there is a procedure there today, maybe there isn’t. Either way, he has made his point. There will always be people who object to this change and there is not much we can do about it. Best thing is to ignore them. The way I look at it is if I ever had to avail of these services (which is highly unlikely as my baby days are nearly over); if I had to pass a wall of fanatical fools Id just ignore them. I made my choice for me and my life and those people know neither me nor my life. Hope their own is going along tickety-boo for them…. (hint; it probably isn’t)