Munster Express Online

I refer to the detailed article which appeared in last week’s edition with regard to the proposed Carrick-on-Suir bypass, and the one point within it that proved of particular concern.

The Waterford Council of Trade Unions, which is a constituent part of the Friends of the Elderly action group, has been endeavoring to keep the issue of the closure of St Brigid’s Ward and its 26 highly-dependent beds – and the previous Minister of Health’s neglect of the HSE plan that prioritised St Patrick’s Hospital for a new 50-bed Nursing Unit – in the public eye.

At a time when the State is bordering on insolvency itself, it continues to pay exorbitant wages and pensions (sometimes in excess of what they earned at work) to an elite body of public servants who feathered their own nest through the excesses of the last government.

f any of your readers were unfortunate enough to have watched the Late Late Show on Friday night last and, God forbid, in the company of any English people, they would have witnessed another example of how the presentation of our national opinion.

So, Councillor Gary Wyse is determined ‘to get bulldozers back on the building sites, even if he has to push them back on himself’!!

I’m writing to ask readers to help me keep the wonderful St Luke’s Hospital in Rathgar for cancer patients.

I was bemused by the headline last week’s The Munster Express reporting Councillor Gary Wyse’s call for the erection of a cable car from the Ard Rí site to the Quays in Waterford.

The vast majority of people access St Patrick’s Hospital via the main entrance.

When the HSE closed St Bridget’s Ward in St Patrick’s Hospital, their spin doctors fell over themselves to reassure the Waterford gullible people that a new fifty bed state-of-the-art hospital was about to be built.