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“Neil, This (above) is my daughter who tried to jump of a bridge last night and is in the waiting room in A & E in this picture. She’s autistic, suicidal and obviously distressed. She was left for five hrs, balling crying on the floor.
The staff had no bed to give her, no comfort, not even as much as a glass of water. When other patients started to make a fuss they gave her a trolley. By this time my daughter was so distressed she was hysterical.
She told the consulting Doctor several times if we left she would kill herself. Their advice? Take her home. I’m now on route home with my daughter crying inconsolably in the back seat of the car. We left A & E with her balling crying and everyone staring at us with concern. God help us because no one else will. Please share this on the morning show. THIS is the way our young people are killing themselves. There is NO help”

A message to the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork’s Red FM.

The station write:

We have spoken to this mother this morning. Her daughter’s body is covered from head to toe in slashes from self harm. Mum is at her wits end and is living in fear that her daughter will kill herself. We have passed her details to the HSE.

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Irish-American patriot Kevin Westley.

On a mischievous wild goose chase.

Go to your local big box stores, buy all the t-shirts emblazoned with drunken stereotypes you can find, keep them in your garage or car trunk so they never see the light of day, and return them promptly on March 18. “Put them on your credit card and you never spend a dime,” he told IrishCentral.

Irish American buys all of Walmart’s offensive t-shirts, will return them March 18 (Sheila Langan, IrishCentral)

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Alan writes:

My dear friend Niamh, a wonderful, smart, caring, and frankly just incredible woman has put up a story {above] on her Facebook of her trouble trying to acquire a grant through SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland) despite what I’m sure you’ll agree are some quite deserving circumstances. I’ve asked her if it’s OK if I share the post with you and she has agreed. I think some of your readers may be interested to see what some people have to go through to try (and fail) to get even a partial contribution to the fees….

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Liz Smith (above) with the fruits of a paper engineering session with staff at MyVolts.com

Luke Brennnan of MyVolts.com – Dublin based international online power supply whatsit, writes:

We decided to break up the February grind with a visit to the MyVolts office from the queen of paper engineering, Liz Smith. Liz is an NCAD graduate who has been running fantastic pop-up workshops for children and adults all over Ireland for a number of years. The theme of the workshop she delivered was “Your Dublin”. Liz is a warm, energetic and talented to boot and available for office workshops, school workgroups, children’s parties, weddings, bar mitzvahs, etc… and can be found here...

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‘For too long this secret language has been draining the fiscal resources of those who do not speak it. Finally this gaelach garble will be unmasked and exposed for the tax-paying people of Erin. The jig is up and the something is something…’

Yikiní.

Grainne writes:

I do enjoy the vitriolic comment backlash that the Irish-language usually provokes on your site so this may be of interest to some of your readers. An Irish-language-ish show about the Irish language and how we feel about it. Tonight and tomorrow at Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street, Dublin [Details at link below]

Smidríní (Facebook)

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