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Thursday March 11th 2010

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Been a while…

...since I had a good rant about insurance companies. Well, it's a new year and there are two advertisements that are really getting on my nerves at the moment. The first is a radio advert by AXA who claim to be your "local" insurance company. Drop in and get your amazingly cheap policy with no fuss. Well AXA are far from your "local" insurance company so don't let that fool you into supporting your own. In fact unless you live in Dublin or Derry you won't be talking to somebody in the same county as you when you call them. On top of that, the great savings on offer, well I still haven't [...]

2-4-6-8 Who do we not vaccinate?

Sadly the answer to that in recent times has been all those, of a young age, who could avail of the new wonder vaccine for cervical cancer in Ireland. This post was prompted by listening to the Ray D'Arcy show on Today FM this morning when Health Minister, Mary Harney, took her life into her hands and put herself at the mercy of the headline crusader himself. While it is a crying shame that the health service in Ireland cannot be realigned to find the Eur 10 million necessary to commence this vaccination program for young females, and that money is still being spent on ridiculous overheads [...]