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Today was my third time driving to Kilkenny to visit my psychiatrist only to find that there’d been an error on their part re the time of the appointment or where they’ve forgotten to book it in. Another fully wasted journey.

The third time they’d cocked up an appointment? FFS. Would you make a complaint?

Yep. I can I suppose.

Or I can rejoin the queue and get someone else in 18 months time

Be handy enough be a psychiatrists secretary.

ā€œDon’t mind him Doctor, he’s delusional.ā€

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That’s bullshit altogether. How many people are they doing that to. Make a complaint. And then call to confirm appointments the next time. And meantime try find someone else? Good luck with it pal.

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I would write to the minister for health and copy the psychiatry team admin in. That will stir them for sure. It’s like your time doesn’t count.

His time…nor his health

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I don’t trust myself to email Jennifer

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Would you try drop off a few bottles to the return with the spare time?

Watching them machines break isn’t what my psyche needs right now

I dropped back €20 worth of them yesterday and I must admit I thought of you pal.

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A great little country for the cosy cabal

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0414/1507577-simon-coveney-joins-eys-geopolitical-strategy-unit/

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ā€œThe unit helps businesses navigate through this time of heightened geopolitical complexity, with the integration of political risk managementā€

He’s handy with brown envelopes in other words

Just the 13 year waiting list for children to see a psychologist in Dublin

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Christ almighty.

What is coming out about the treatment of poor kid Harvey and how he was taken of the surgery list because he was labelled as being in palliative care is sickening.

We never had sufficient provision for this kind of thing and during the recession any expansion had to be refused and eventually it just became baked in and somehow accepted as the standard. Or at least that’s my theory. It’s a national disgrace. I think you judge a society by how it treats its weakest people and we are not good at it.

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And Martin made a big song and a dance out of how he regrets his record on the treatment of people with disabilities at the last election and how it would be an area of key focus.

A year on and nothing has changed.

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