Health
HSE to use ‘Mountjoy’ nets to stop illicit codeine distribution
The HSE is seeking permission from An Bord Pleanala to place nets around pharmacists and their shops to prevent them from throwing codeine to their customers. »
Thousands forced to emigrate to avoid suffering from Brain Drain
The Mire has been inundated with calls from readers who fear they may be suffering from Brain Drain. »
Experts believe Cowen may have caught Tourette’s off Coughlan
Experts in Tourette’s syndrome now believe the condition might be contagious and that Taoiseach Brian Cowen caught it from Education Minister Mary Coughlan. »
Department of Education actively considering discontinuing education
The Department of Education and Skills is actively considering a proposal from Health and Safety officers not to reopen schools after the summer holidays. »
Bord Failte plan to market dirty bathing water positively
The appalling bathing water quality at Ireland’s beaches need not necessarily be seen in a negative light, according to plans for a new Bord Failte marketing campaign. »
Food industry celebrates chickens that grow multiple drumsticks
Irish food scientists were today celebrating a breakthrough in the modified evolution of chickens that enables them to grow cut-and-come-again drumsticks. »
HSE admits erroneously informing 233 people that they were born
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has admitted it is investigating hundreds of incidents where people were erroneously informed that they had been born. »
Career criminals to be taken into care by HSE
A review of the criminal justice system is expected to recommend that career criminals and repeat offenders be taken into care by the HSE instead of being sentenced to prison terms. »
HSE looks to rebrand state care to eliminate needless confusion
HSE chiefs under pressure over the numbers of children who have died in state care are understood to believe that the core problem is that state care is in fact misnamed. »
HSE to ask church to assume responsibility for child welfare
The HSE is to ask the Catholic Church to assume its responsibility for child welfare so it can focus its efforts on destroying the lives of the elderly. »