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Children’s hospital issues urgent call over ‘out of date’ wards

Doctors in Crumlin said facilities are “not fit for purpose” and cannot wait for a new National Children’s Hospital to be built.

A MAJOR CHILDREN’S hospital has issued an urgent call for funds for a renovation, saying the facilities used to treat sick children are obsolete and “not fit for purpose”.

Staff at Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin, south Dublin said the institution lacks modern amenities and children are treated in cramped wards with out-of-date facilities.

The campaign comes amid debate on the future of the National Children’s Hospital project – but campaigners said children cannot afford to wait years for a new hospital.

“Children are sick, right now, said Dr Orla Franklin, a consultant paediatric cardiologist at Crumlin. “Their illnesses ignore time and circumstances.” She added:

Every year Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital treats 130,000 children.  We carry out 550 open-heart surgeries. Children are fighting aggressive cancers.  These tough life struggles are happening in cramped and out of date facilities.  This has to change.

The hospital is launching a new campaign to raise €8million for refurbishment of its cardiac and cancer care facilities.

Currently the cancer ward has no private rooms for terminally ill children, and no private bathroom for patients or their family to use, the hospital said in a statement. Meanwhile, parents of critically ill heart patients are forced to sleep on corridors and wards.

More: New proposal to build National Children’s Hospital on Coombe site>

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    Mute Sarah Lou
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:06 PM

    Fascinates me, not playing the poor me as I am lucky to have kept my company going but…. they took in an average of 87k per week and got 121k in government assistance….. I got a tax bill and may get a 100 euro voucher but I am not sure if that was passed in the budget.

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    Mute Sean
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:17 PM

    @Sarah Lou: Some businesses who weren’t hit by the pandemic as hard as they expected are now being tapped on the shoulder by Revenue who are looking for some level of repayments from 56% of employees. I don’t know but I’m guessing KK might fall into this bracket.

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    Mute Sean
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:18 PM

    @Sean: *employers* that should have said

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    Mute Patricia O'Reilly
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:56 PM

    @Sarah Lou: I know nothing of shops etc, but are you employing staff? Are you paying rates or commercial charges etc ? We want all these businesses to survive thats why they got subsidies, and remember a fair bit of it goes straight back into the tax coffers in one form or another..

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    Mute Sarah Lou
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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:55 PM

    @Patricia O’Reilly: I am sorry Patricia but are you alluding that this business, selling donuts with an income of 87k per week for the same year they received 121k in government support was more deserving of it than my company that you literally have absolutely no idea even what industry it was in, how it has been affected etc? I mean I dont know where to start with that. It would however have been nice to have been given some financial recognition in the budget even 1% tax back!

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    Mute Sarah Lou
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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:57 PM

    @Sean: Glad to hear they are recouping some of the losses, I feel bad for people having to unexpectedly pay it but its great that they didnt make their predicted losses and a lot of the past year came down to honesty, particularly at the beginning it was a free for all.

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    Mute Dean
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    Oct 15th 2021, 3:52 PM

    @Sarah Lou:
    And how much of that 87k, each week, goes to workers — who actually do the work — than to the ceo wage.

    Low paid workers = more profits hoarded in society by the businessman.

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    Mute Sarah Lou
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    Oct 15th 2021, 4:04 PM

    @Dean: as Patricia, it is her who feels it very important they are kept going!

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    Mute The next small thing
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    Oct 15th 2021, 5:27 PM

    @Dean: you seem to have a problem with business owners making a profit, in your eutopia should the workers also pay an equal share of losses in a lose making business?

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    Oct 15th 2021, 8:58 PM

    @Sarah Lou: heart attack food

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    Mute Seán Ryan
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    Oct 15th 2021, 12:49 PM

    And there is poverty????

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    Mute Mattress Dick
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    Oct 15th 2021, 12:53 PM

    @Seán Ryan: yes there is. The is obesity also

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    Mute Alan Peters
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:28 PM

    @Mattress Dick: the Americans contributing to obesity in Ireland, who’d have guessed?

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    Mute Patricia O'Reilly
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:53 PM

    @Alan Peters: lol I think we are doing a great job on that ourselves.. can’t blame America foe having great doughnuts..
    wish I lived close by.. yummm

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    Mute Patrick Reynolds
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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:23 PM

    @Mattress Dick: Absolutely Agree, how many covid /cancer deaths can be attributed to obesity and the overload of suger in our Western diet? People need to be aware of it

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    Oct 15th 2021, 3:38 PM

    @Alan Peters: Just like Chinese people are responsible for Covid

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    Mute Carm(Orange Vampire)
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:37 PM

    That is a sad story. No wonder obesity is a huge problem here (pardon the pun)

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    Mute Joey Navinski
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:42 PM

    @Carm(Orange Vampire): where’s the pun?

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    Mute Joey Navinski
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:43 PM

    @Joey Navinski: duh, I get it now. Sorry.

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    Mute Aidan Conway
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    Oct 16th 2021, 7:26 PM

    @Carm(Orange Vampire): true abiut obesity and obviously going to get worse…..
    Lol avoided saying grow or expand or inflate , or…

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    Mute Sean
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:13 PM

    They are all at it these days with their secret recipes – KFC, McDonalds. Please! It’s not that hard to make a donut! It’s just basically flour, eggs, butter, a drop of vanilla. People have been making them for years. Let’s not pretend KK invented them!

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    Mute John Black
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:22 PM

    @Sean: ah no, you’ve given away their secret, they’re definitely going to go out of business now

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    Mute Alan Peters
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:25 PM

    @Sean: they put a bit of extra sugar in their icing that’s about as secret as it gets

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    Mute Sam Harms
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:29 PM

    @Sean: they aren’t even nice, they taste like pure sugar. Irish businesses like Off Beat or the Rolling Donut are much better.

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    Mute John Black
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:30 PM

    @Alan Peters: well they actually put a lot of extra things in them to alter the taste and texture, etc, like most processed food though if you listed all the ingredients you’d put more people off than you would entice

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    Mute Patricia O'Reilly
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:58 PM

    @Sam Harms: doughnuts in general are pure sugar and they are all yummm

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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:22 PM

    @Sam Harms: I actually agree that they are too sweet and a lot of confectionery and baking in Ireland overdoses on the sugar. Personally I avoid these donuts in the main because of that but also don’t want a weeks worth of calories in one bite. You would have to run for 25 minutes on a treadmill to burn off the calories in one original glazed donut and some of the special varieties have double that.

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    Mute Philip Mckenna
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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:44 PM

    @Sean: Have you tasted a KK donut? It’s like comparing a bottle of Lidl wine to a 200 year old Bordeaux?

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    Mute Gavin Cronin
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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:55 PM

    @Sean: you need to add in all those E numbers. That’s the secret ingredient

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    Mute Sam Harms
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    Oct 15th 2021, 3:12 PM

    @Sean: I wouldn’t eat them much either maybe once or twice a year but if I do if go for Offbeat over Krispy Kreme any day. Glazed donuts are disgusting though, Boston creme all the way!

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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:16 PM

    Very sad to see this. How easily people are influenced by fads and hype.
    How it is normalised to eat more than one of these in a sitting.

    It is foods like this that are contributing to irelands obesity crisis, putting serious pressure on the health system, there should be warnings on this type of food or at least government sponsored information campaigns. If we could get the country to drastically change our eating habits we would go a long way to improving health increasing lifespan and reducing strains on hospitals.

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    Mute Tomo
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:41 PM

    The workers are probably constantly swamped, understaffed, and on minimum wage too.

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    Mute Tony Harris
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:51 PM

    @Tomo: Probably? They could also be the best best employers? But let’s go with the negative view, might make us feel better…..

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    Oct 15th 2021, 7:18 PM

    @Tony Harris: With the highest proportion of workers in low income in the EU, it is actually quite probable or more than likely.

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    Mute PositiveMe
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    Oct 15th 2021, 3:29 PM

    Any wonder 90% of us are predicted to be overweight or obese by 2030. KK has a stand in my local Tesco. Any time I’m in there there’s a queue of teens buying boxes of the stuff

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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:00 PM

    All dough there was love there there was dough there to dough.

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    Mute Fachtna Roe
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    Oct 15th 2021, 4:21 PM

    @Brian Farrell: *two ;)

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    Oct 15th 2021, 4:57 PM

    @Fachtna Roe: too

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    Mute ed w
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:22 PM

    give me a polish jam doughnut any day of the week over this . they look horrible. never eaten one so maybe they are nice.

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    Mute John Black
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    Oct 15th 2021, 1:24 PM

    @ed w: jam doughnuts have a bit too much going on for me, a bit messy too, prefer a nice simple glazed one, it’s like butter and toast, simple but just something about it makes it the best

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    Mute Jimmy Jones
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    Oct 15th 2021, 4:05 PM

    Fatties go to KK

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    Mute Anthony Mitchell
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    Oct 15th 2021, 6:49 PM

    And then they’ll tell you sugar isn’t addictive. I’ve kicked alcohol and tobacco to the curb . This stuff is like kryptonite to me. I return to it even though it makes me feel nauseous afterwards. Not rational behaviour.

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    Mute Fred Conlan
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    Oct 15th 2021, 3:39 PM

    Fat Ireland!

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    Mute Si
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    Oct 15th 2021, 3:30 PM

    I do-not believe it

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    Mute Declan Moran
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    Oct 15th 2021, 2:58 PM

    Everyone is gone dough nuts :)

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