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A MAN WHO had to have his head rebuilt due to a fungal infection in his skull is now due to take part in a sponsored abseil to raise funds for King’s College Hospital in London this weekend.
Danny Elpick had life-saving neurosurgery removing a large part of his skull at the hospital when he was diagnosed with a ‘subdural empyema’, a serious brain condition that can be fatal in many cases.
Nine months later, surgeon Robert Bentley rebuilt the mans skull in an operation that involves inserting a specially designed titanium plate to replace the section of skull removed during the initial surgery.
Speaking today, Elpick said the team at the hospital “basically gave me my life back”. The man’s surgeon has also decided to join Elpick in the charity abseil, along with friends and family who will all abseil 100 foot down the hospital’s Golden Jubilee Wing.
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So, if these cigarettes were legal there’s 3.6 million for the government, 900 grand split between the manufacturers and the retailers. Rip Off Ireland is alive and well.
@Seamus Murphy: sounds about right. The tax on a €10 pack of cigarettes was €8.12 after Budget 2015.
@Seamus Murphy: yeah spot on, you’d have to ask where’s the real crime here??
Must admit I’m struggling with the maths here
As I smoker I totally understand the implications of smoking and some people’s revulsion, it is an addiction. The problem I have is with the easy way to justify taxation. Whoever is in government uses the health spin. Of course you stand a higher chance of cancer and heart disease if you smoke but an article in the Irish times in the early 2000′s when the new smoking laws came in said that although smoking related diseases cost the health service approx 1.8 billion a year from memory they recouped multiples of this figure in tax. The government admit that they think 1 in 3 cigarettes smoked in Ireland are bought elsewhere. I would say if the government admit that the probably its nearer 1 in 2. On this basis especially after the crash would have been to reduce the price to say 6-7 euros per pack. Why? People would not go on cigarette runs of which I know people who’ve done. Go to Prague, s ay overnight and bring 20 cartons back in their hand luggage. Price including cigs flights accommodation 50 euros a carton. Definitely worth it if you’re paying a tenner plus a pack. Would a smoker pay 50 a carton in Moore St. Which are causing much more harm because most are fake and floor sweeping off tobacco factories if you could get the real thing for a fraction more? Finally if that had been done you would have upped the tourist trade immensely from the north and the uk. Smokers see where they are going and the cigarette prices influencing choices. The revenue would be saying 1 in 10 cigarettes smoked were bought abroad if they’d done that and the revenue would be as well off from cigarettes if not better plus the extra influx of visitors.
@Plumbers Dublin: Get going on CHAMPIX! Guaranteed to get you off them. You can even smoke while taking it. I was at them for 60yrs . Worked no problem. Goodluck
@Plumbers Dublin: Couldn’t even get to the end of that boy
James, I’ve considered this but there are occasional side effects of this. One of my female friends went on it and it caused a breakdown.l,attempted suicide and she hadn’t been the same since. Divorce etc. Although this is not the usual case it definitely put me off.
Damn. I’d have smoked the lot.
A spokeswoman for Revenue said: “The majority of people pay the right amount of tax and duty”
More like a jokeswoman for Revenue:
Does she know where Moore Street is?
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