More Bureaucratic Madness: Nurse Who Died Battling Black Death Outbreak In 1348 Still On HSE Payroll

THOSE LEFT AGHAST at the news of wastage of taxpayer money in the form of two HSE staff members suspended with full pay for 11 years, have been told they might need to sit down for this next revelation.

“Ah no look, these things happen and anyway it’s not our money so no use losing sleep over it,” said one HSE spokesperson after an internal audit identified one nurse, who treated patients during the outbreak of the Black Death in the 14th, was still on the payroll.

The nurse, Aimilíona Ní Maolmocheirghe, deceased from the bubonic plague in 1348, is believed to have received 35,325 pay slips before flags were raised internally by payroll staff and anything was judged to be amiss.

“To be fair, obviously we’d rather not have these things happen but the lads deserve praise for catching this one early,” explained HSE chief Bernard Gloster.

“See Aimilíona is a Norman name, and we were still operating largely as an oral culture then in Ireland, our record keeping hasn’t got much better mind,” conceded Gloster.

Gloster tried to soften the news somewhat by pointing out that up until her death Ní Maolmocheirghe would have been charged to park her horse and cart within the plague hospital grounds.

UPDATE: The HSE confirmed initial efforts to recoup the money began in 1811 and that a conclusion to this effort is expected once they can get in touch with the staff involved.

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