AS MANY as 37 creche facilities are on the highest level of risk on Tusla’s risk register, according to information divulged by Tusla officials before a Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs. What does this mean? It means all 37 creches are still operating as normal, completely uninterrupted and free to carry doing… Read more »
CHANGES made to popular mindfulness app Hey Hey Calm Down There will require users to not only update their app, but also subscribe to a premium package if they want to continue their course of meditation and not be such a fucking whinge-bag all the time. The app, made by Waterford-based tech company Hardkore, has millions of… Read more »
WITH the announcement by minister for health Simon Harris of plans for 6 regional health areas within the HSE, Ireland is tantalisingly close to being just 30 rushed overhauls away from the health service not being in any better shape. “This is definetly going to work…probably,” an exhausted looking Simon Harris said, hoping the public and… Read more »
AS the HSE continues to mull over the merits of medicinal cannabis, several long-term sufferers of illness that may benefit from the drug have started to wonder whether or not they will be able to avail of it, and when. The answer so far is simple; maybe, and sometime. Minister For Health Simon Harris has… Read more »
WE MEET a visibly worked up Minister for Health Simon Harris who is not best pleased and it’s easy to see why; 10,000 healthcare support staff are striking today in search of something called ‘decent pay’. “I’m pretty browned off to be honest, more browned off than toast that was left in a toaster a… Read more »
TIRED of having to read several articles to keep up to date with all the various crises in the HSE? Lucky for you, WWN have compiled this handy guide to keep you up to speed! Children’s Hospital Hopes that the woefully over-budget Children’s Hospital project would suddenly shed €500m in expenses and arrive on time… Read more »
INITIAL concerns around the severity of Ebola Breakout 2k19 have been alleviated by the news that the troublesome disease has managed to quarantine itself to the poorer areas of the world, WWN can confirm. The deadly disease, which returned this year for a killer new season after several years on hiatus, is currently causing huge amounts… Read more »
A STUDY conducted by the World Wildlife Fund has revealed that people could be ingesting an astonishing 5 grams of plastic a week, such is the ubiquity of plastics in our societies. However, those seeking to partake in a balanced diet may be worried their inadvertent consumption of plastics through plastic bottles and shellfish consumption… Read more »
WWN was granted unprecedented access to the site on which the National Children’s Hospital will eventually be built, sometime around your newborn turns 52. Unfortunately the project director and the chairperson of the board of the NCH stepped down in disgrace so WWN had to make do with a tour from the Minister of Health,… Read more »
VAX. Anti-Vax. Measles, smallpox. Herd immunity, government conspiracies. The only way we’ll ever know the truth, is to do the one thing that unites all threads by doing what we should always do. Follow the money. Who stands to benefit from the return of a slew of diseases with symptoms that predominantly include itchy skin… Read more »