Clowns
After nine long years of weeping and gnashing of teeth since construction began in 2016, Dublin’s spanking new children’s hospital is finally set to open its doors in June 2026. With a price tag of €2.24 billion (and counting), little old Ireland now boasts what is reportedly the most expensive hospital on Earth.
Go the Paddys!
But what to call this gleaming monument to government folly and overspending, originally set to cost 600 million? A project of such magnificence surely deserves a name of equal grandeur.
The name "Phoenix Children's Hospital Ireland" was abandoned after fears that it would be a reminder of the scandals involving organs from deceased children being incinerated with clinical waste, not to mention legal threats from Phoenix Children’s Hospital in Arizona, USA.
Meetings were held, consultants consulted, and a specialist branding agency paid a measly €4,500, before the decision was made to call it ... The National Children’s Hospital!
Bravo! Inspired, I hear you cry. How ever did they think of that? “The reason that we picked that name was very simple. We had a process of engagement with the youth advisory groups, with parents, with patients, and that is the name that they chose", said the minister for health.
What ever would we do without government?
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Image nicked from Irish Independent Newspaper
HAHAHAHAHA! We'd have better roads for sure.
It cost nearly FOUR TIMES AS MUCH?!
I have to ask, why do we need such a thing in the first place? I read that nearly half of Americans work for the medical industry here. Nearly half of us. Why is this necessary? Could it be because the medical model is failing miserably?
Half? Crikey! That's some statistic! But I wouldn't worry. RFK will have it all sorted out quick smart. Trust the plan!:)
Well, a short-long-amazing-disturbing experience has shown me that usually overbudgets come out of a great flow of cash to many other destinies rather than the original construction. They use to call it circumstantial setbacks provoked by a supposed transparent economical blokade that's over us for many years now.
They are stealing the fuck out the money to get pooled huge mansions done or getting some ghosts(no so ghosts) accounts grow behind the supposed necessary and human need of such a facility (I don't doubt the need, not for a minute).
Well, not real ones, those are clear.
Thiefs.
Poor sacrificing government funtionaries, always thinking of the greater good.
Always a pleasure reading you.
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Absolutely! Thieves and scoundrels. If it wasn't for the cost of government, we'd all have mansions...with gold taps!
Certainly we would. I wouldn't call it costs though.
Damn!!!
Couldn't you get yourself some green tights, a brown tunic and a little feathered cap?
I was thinking about it. I need a Mariam though. Some arrows and a good bow.
I would probably need more stuff, other wise I'll get old in the woods waiting for them to pass over. So I'll have to modernize a bit the heroe.😉
I thought my sleepy old town had the most expensive hospital in the world! I went to go look at it, $2B AUD, so about a third as much in Euro, probably.
$2B AUD? Pocket change!:)
Just behind the sofa on checks notes level 4, wing c, family room 8.
Hahaha 4500€ very well spent! That's a really charming name, but they could have picked a better ones like 'a hospital' or 'place to cure children'... Ireland politics doesn't seem better than Italy
I think politics is the same everywhere. It's always a case of the lunatics running the asylum.
lol typical of governments the world over....spending alot and thinking a little. Whatever would we do, indeed!
I think if every would-be politician had to pass a psychopathy test, we'd have no politicians:)
You're right about that. Along with the psychopathy tests, we could have lie detector tests to find out exactly what they're hiding when they're playing hide the weasel with billions of dollars!
The National Children's Hospital. From a people blessed with the likes of Yeats, Wilde and Shaw--a remarkable creative achievement.
They could have asked any random 2-year-old with the same results:)
To quote Yeats:
'Was it for this the wild geese spread
The grey wing upon every tide;
For this that all that blood was shed,
For this Edward Fitzgerald died,
And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
All that delirium of the brave?
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.'
I know, I know, it's absurd. But thanks for the lovely read...
https://x.com/lee19389/status/1973113892076396818
#hive #posh
Wow, that was a boring name they settled on.
And a costly one! Haven't they heard of Chat GPT?
It’s crazy how much money and time has gone into this hospital, only to end up with such a plain name. Shows how government projects can sometimes lose touch with common sense.
Sometimes?