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		<title>Thousands forced to emigrate to avoid suffering from Brain Drain</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/thousands-forced-to-emigrate-to-avoid-suffering-from-brain-drain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anglo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain drain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mortgage payments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mire has been inundated with calls from readers who fear they may be suffering from Brain Drain.
&#8220;Every time I pick up a newspaper I feel stupid, stupid, stupid,&#8221; one caller said.
&#8220;Brain Drain is a pernicious condition whereby the sufferer feels increasingly stupid at being taken advantage of by politicians, mortgage companies and &#8230; everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts believe Cowen may have caught Tourette&#8217;s off Coughlan</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/experts-believe-cowen-may-have-caught-tourettes-off-coughlan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Minister Mary Coughlan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enda Kenny]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fine Gael leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party TD Paul Gogarty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taoiseach Brian Cowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourette's syndrome]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Experts in Tourette&#8217;s syndrome now believe the condition might be contagious and that Taoiseach Brian Cowen caught it from Education Minister Mary Coughlan.
Last year, an expert on Tourette’s  told The Mire that Tanaiste Mary Coughlan could be suffering  from coprolalia and might not be able to help making a complete tit of herself on occasion.
Coprolalia,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Education actively considering discontinuing education</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/department-of-education-actively-considering-discontinuing-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Education and Skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education Minister Mary Coughlan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Education and Skills is actively considering a proposal from Health and Safety officers not to reopen schools after the summer holidays.
Sources say Education Minister Mary Coughlan approves of the plan to discontinue education on budgetary and health grounds.
&#8220;The Department of Education&#8217;s mission to provide an equal education for all has been hugely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bord Failte plan to market dirty bathing water positively</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/bord-failte-plan-to-market-dirty-bathing-water-positively/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/bord-failte-plan-to-market-dirty-bathing-water-positively/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bathing water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bono]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bord Failte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U2]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The appalling bathing water quality at Ireland&#8217;s beaches need not necessarily be seen in a negative light, according to plans for a new Bord Failte marketing campaign.
&#8220;We believe there is an opportunity here to market the country for tourists seeking a Christian holiday,&#8221; a source said.
&#8220;We have to make the most of the fact that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food industry celebrates chickens that grow multiple drumsticks</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/food-industry-celebrates-chickens-that-grow-multiple-drumsticks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/food-industry-celebrates-chickens-that-grow-multiple-drumsticks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cut and come again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drumsticks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Irish food scientists were today celebrating a breakthrough in the modified evolution of chickens that enables them to grow cut-and-come-again drumsticks.
Scientists have successfully crossed chickens with cut-and-come-again salad leaves and broccolli plants.
&#8220;This is the future of food,&#8221; a scientist said. &#8220;These chickens grow multiple drumsticks and wings that are already southern fried or barbecue flavour.&#8221;
&#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSE admits erroneously informing 233 people that they were born</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Service Executive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taken into care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Health Service Executive (HSE) has admitted it is investigating hundreds of incidents where people were erroneously informed that they had been born.
In all 233 individuals and their extended families were today coming to terms with the reality of not existing.
&#8220;In many cases it seems that we told women who came in for routine appointments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career criminals to be taken into care by HSE</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/career-criminals-to-be-taken-into-care-by-hse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/career-criminals-to-be-taken-into-care-by-hse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career criminals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[repeat offenders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.
&#8220;Traditional custodial sentencing has generally allowed criminals to hone their skills in the company of experts in their fields,&#8221; a Department of Justice source said.
&#8220;It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSE looks to rebrand state care to eliminate needless confusion</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/hse-looks-to-rebrand-state-care-to-eliminate-needless-confusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/hse-looks-to-rebrand-state-care-to-eliminate-needless-confusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 08:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state care]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.
&#8220;People are hung up on the detail. Have 200 died? Have 400? They&#8217;re missing the point because we have given them the wrong impression,&#8221; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HSE to ask church to assume responsibility for child welfare</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/hse-to-ask-church-to-assume-responsibility-for-child-welfare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/hse-to-ask-church-to-assume-responsibility-for-child-welfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 07:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elder abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.
&#8220;This insistence that we should keep exact records of every child who dies in our care is demoralising and making us less efficient at elder abuse,&#8221; a source [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better chance of survival with self surgery based on TV dramas</title>
		<link>http://www.themire.net/better-chance-of-survival-with-self-surgery-based-on-tv-dramas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themire.net/better-chance-of-survival-with-self-surgery-based-on-tv-dramas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 07:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donal Conaty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grey's Anatomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HSE study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scrubs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People who perform their own surgery after watching medical dramas on television have a higher success rate than those who opt for the more traditional route of attending hospital.
A HSE study has found that people who regularly watch programmes such as Scrubs and Grey&#8217;s Anatomy are often very skilled surgeons.
In contrast, many actual surgeons who [...]]]></description>
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