Quote from: marty34 on Today at 10:04:15 PMQuote from: paddyjohn on Today at 09:11:45 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on Today at 03:00:44 PMQuote from: brokencrossbar1 on Today at 02:19:48 PMI remember at the time it sent chills through the whole nationalist community. Just listening to Talkback and Trevor Birney talking about and how attacking someone like Sean Brown was a deliberate ploy as he was decent and could not be associated with any paramilitary organisation. It was purely to put fear and Terror through a whole community by striking at its centre.
We had just won the AI and had beaten Bellaghy in the Ulster final before Christmas 1996. There was a crew of us living in Belfast and we had close relationships on and off the field with a lot of the Bellaghy lads. It struck hard. I remember travelling home at the time and we regularly changed out pick up spots etc. Going to matches in Lurgan and that was always a concern as well. How the f**k was that normal?
Unfortunately we normalised it at the time and adopted
My dad handed me the book The Shankill butchers when it came out
Made me read it before I headed out that weekend, needless to say that put the willies up me for that period of heading out!
Absolutely horrible book. Really tough. I read the book called committee. Really opened my eyes as a teenager growing up.
Only policeman you trust is a dead one.
Is that book still available?
Quote from: Tones on Today at 10:00:49 PMQuote from: Puckoon on Today at 06:42:24 PMQuote from: Tones on Today at 06:20:15 PMYeah f**k you jack I am OK.
You're putting the blame at the GPs door for taking on a legal practice activity? What moral obligation do they have to get f**ked by a broken system?
Successive Prime Ministers, Health Ministers drove the place into the ground. Some moral obligation to be the last violinist on the Titanic.
Did they pay privately to be trained?
Quote from: paddyjohn on Today at 09:11:45 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on Today at 03:00:44 PMQuote from: brokencrossbar1 on Today at 02:19:48 PMI remember at the time it sent chills through the whole nationalist community. Just listening to Talkback and Trevor Birney talking about and how attacking someone like Sean Brown was a deliberate ploy as he was decent and could not be associated with any paramilitary organisation. It was purely to put fear and Terror through a whole community by striking at its centre.
We had just won the AI and had beaten Bellaghy in the Ulster final before Christmas 1996. There was a crew of us living in Belfast and we had close relationships on and off the field with a lot of the Bellaghy lads. It struck hard. I remember travelling home at the time and we regularly changed out pick up spots etc. Going to matches in Lurgan and that was always a concern as well. How the f**k was that normal?
Unfortunately we normalised it at the time and adopted
My dad handed me the book The Shankill butchers when it came out
Made me read it before I headed out that weekend, needless to say that put the willies up me for that period of heading out!
Absolutely horrible book. Really tough. I read the book called committee. Really opened my eyes as a teenager growing up.
Only policeman you trust is a dead one.
Quote from: JoG2 on Today at 09:59:06 PMQuote from: bennydorano on Today at 04:32:40 PMQuote from: Applesisapples on Today at 04:15:36 PMI dont think so. Went part time (or just left) NHS to go into the private sector.Quote from: Tones on Today at 02:38:10 PMMy friends aunt was up from the South, needed to see a doctor, paid £75 quid to see one in a private clinic in Armagh ran by an ex Tyrones missus, the doctor she saw is the doctor I would see if I ever got an appointment!That Doctor is in all likelihood taking those shifts because his or her practice can not give them any more shifts. Not the fault of the GP but the system.
Couple of health centres in Derry are starting to offer the private consultations at £75 a pop. These appointments will only be outside the core hours, ie after 6pm as far as I know.
* huge amount of last minute cancellations / no shows
* staff members getting serious abuse. A woman working in one of the larger health centres in the town told me 4 admin staff left within a week of each other. They didn't have other jobs to go to at the time, just couldn't listen to any more dung
* dozens of prescriptions like 'brufen and paracetamol which cost a quid in the supermarket costing £40+ when got through a health centre
* repeat patients, and I'm talking of a lot of folk calling each and every day with different ailments
* queues for sick lines
* general levels of entitlement and abuse of the system
The above and many more issues aren't helping things
Quote from: Blowitupref on Today at 09:57:55 PM5-0 flattered Chelsea tonight.
Quote from: Puckoon on Today at 06:42:24 PMQuote from: Tones on Today at 06:20:15 PMYeah f**k you jack I am OK.
You're putting the blame at the GPs door for taking on a legal practice activity? What moral obligation do they have to get f**ked by a broken system?
Successive Prime Ministers, Health Ministers drove the place into the ground. Some moral obligation to be the last violinist on the Titanic.
Quote from: bennydorano on Today at 04:32:40 PMQuote from: Applesisapples on Today at 04:15:36 PMI dont think so. Went part time (or just left) NHS to go into the private sector.Quote from: Tones on Today at 02:38:10 PMMy friends aunt was up from the South, needed to see a doctor, paid £75 quid to see one in a private clinic in Armagh ran by an ex Tyrones missus, the doctor she saw is the doctor I would see if I ever got an appointment!That Doctor is in all likelihood taking those shifts because his or her practice can not give them any more shifts. Not the fault of the GP but the system.
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on Today at 09:38:01 PMChelsea are a shambles.
Going against popular opinion but mccoist annoys me. There, Ive said it 🤓