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	<title>Kealan Flynn &#38; Co</title>
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		<title>Jargon and the death of the speech</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2012/01/jargon-and-the-death-of-the-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["There is an economic law that says all markets are cyclical save one: the bullshit market, which knows only the bull phase", says the FT's Lucy Kellaway in today's Irish Times.]]></description>
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		<title>Valium in vogue among young</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2011/11/valium-in-vogue-among-young/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2011/11/valium-in-vogue-among-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The demise of the head shop has led to an explosion in the consumption of benzodiazepines like Valium, Xanax and Rohypnol among young people, who are running up an average debt of €1,000 to feed their addiction.]]></description>
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		<title>Politicians have to maintain the illusion there is no miracle they can&#8217;t perform</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2011/07/roscommon-hospital-power-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2011/07/roscommon-hospital-power-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Events in Roscommon these past weeks show that politicians will never hesitate in making a step ladder of the people to get at a vote that could go to an opponent.]]></description>
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		<title>Roscommon County Hospital: RIP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 11:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can listen here or here to my interview about the imminent removal of acute services and 24-Hour A&#38;E from Roscommon County Hospital, which went out &#8216;live&#8217; on the Joe Finnegan Show on Shannonside Radio on 30 June. Ever since the Fitzgerald Report of 1968 recommended that it be &#8220;regraded&#8221; i.e. downgraded to a Community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19 TDs or Senators enough for Norris</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2011/06/19-tds-or-senators-enough-for-norris/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2011/06/19-tds-or-senators-enough-for-norris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Aras 11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 10 days ago, Adrian Kavanagh from NUI Maynooth asked a very interesting question: &#8220;Is David Norris allowed to nominate himself as one of the 20 Oireachtas nominations he needs to be an Aras candidate?&#8221; I did a quick check through my bookshelves and replied that &#8220;candidates for the Presidential election cannot nominate themselves, except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As sick as a small hospital</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/09/as-sick-as-a-small-hospital/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/09/as-sick-as-a-small-hospital/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health Services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ireland's economic collapse and rising concerns about patient safety in small hospitals have joined the forces of centralisation and specialisation; those four horsemen are now pushing small acute hospitals to the brink of extinction.]]></description>
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		<title>Putting a doctor &#8216;back&#8217; in the House</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/05/putting-a-doctor-back-in-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/05/putting-a-doctor-back-in-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Election 2012]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mulranny GP Dr Jerry Cowley could send a political dynasty crashing to the ground and cost a high-flying junior minister his Dáil seat at the next election.]]></description>
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		<title>New HSE Chief must insist on personal responsibility</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/04/new-hse-chief-must-insist-on-personal-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/04/new-hse-chief-must-insist-on-personal-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The casualty rate in the race for the top job in the Health Service Executive is looking increasingly like a typical pile-up in the Grand National. Prof Tom Keane was the early faller at Becher’s Brook. One of the Australian front-runners came a cropper at the Canal Turn. The other might not make it over the Chair.]]></description>
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		<title>Labour running Cowley in Mayo</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/04/labour-running-cowley-in-mayo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/04/labour-running-cowley-in-mayo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labour Party have recruited former Independent TD Dr Jerry Cowley, a medical doctor in Mulranny, and will be running him in Mayo at the next general election. Cowley stormed his way to a seat in 2002 but lost it just as dramatically five years later. And the results for this five-seat constituency in 2007 show that Cowley will have it all to do in this decidedly non-Labour territory.]]></description>
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		<title>Is going Dutch our best healthcare option?</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/03/is-going-dutch-our-best-healthcare-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2010/03/is-going-dutch-our-best-healthcare-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last April, the main opposition party unveiled a radical plan to abolish our two-tier health service. Fine Gael has promised that, in government, it will introduce mandatory health insurance so that everyone has a guaranteed minimum package of health services.]]></description>
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		<title>Reference Pricing: fast-forward to a new pharmacy business model</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/08/reference-pricing-fast-forward-to-a-new-pharmacy-business-model/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/08/reference-pricing-fast-forward-to-a-new-pharmacy-business-model/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very good piece explaining &#8216;reference pricing&#8217; in this week&#8217;s Irish Medical Times. I suspect that community pharmacy contractors who are in dispute with the HSE and Minister for Health, and who may be wondering what the latter will come for next year if she succeeds in forcing through the current cuts, will see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victors, Vanquished and a Turning Hourglass</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/06/victors-vanquished-and-a-turning-hourglass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/06/victors-vanquished-and-a-turning-hourglass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all 883 city and county council seats now filled, the results make for delightful &#8211; or dismal &#8211; reading depending on your view of the world: Fianna Fail: 218 (-84) Fine Gael: 340 (+47) Labour: 132 (+31) Sinn Fein: 50 Greens: 3 (-15) Independents: 136 (+40) This is Fianna Fail&#8217;s worst performance in any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O&#039;Neachtain sends Fianna Fail into a tailspin</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/04/oneachtain-sends-fianna-fail-into-a-tailspin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/04/oneachtain-sends-fianna-fail-into-a-tailspin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You would have thought things couldn't get much worse for Fianna Fail after yesterday's disastrous opinion poll showing it with just 23% support (down close to 19% since the General Election) but this evening, with seven weeks to go to the European Elections, its standard bearer in 'North West' has walked away, leaving the party with the headache of finding a replacement in a hurry.]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/04/reflections-on-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/04/reflections-on-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Brian Cowen's contention within the past hour that Fianna Fail is fighting hard for every seat, it is clear the party is facing a tsunami from anxious and angry voters, who are certain to use the three electoral contests on June 5 to deliver a damning verdict on its performance in government.]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming the American Dream</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/04/reclaiming-the-american-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/04/reclaiming-the-american-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise’ (Canongate Books, €15.60) Every US presidency brings a mixture of hope and trepidation, and the traditional avalanche of books about the candidate, their campaign, and the potential as well as the perils, real or imagined, of the new presidency. For Obama, the traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A chance to inspire is lost at the Ard Fheis</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/03/a-chance-to-inspire-is-lost-at-the-ard-fheis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/03/a-chance-to-inspire-is-lost-at-the-ard-fheis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Cowen’s speech to the party faithful at the recent Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis should have been his ‘Urbi et Orbi’ moment. In the end, he connected with neither. Here’s the sort of heresy that could have restored his currency with the country:]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes and Troubles tackled in new Lynch biography</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/02/taxes-and-troubles-tackled-in-new-lynch-biography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2009/02/taxes-and-troubles-tackled-in-new-lynch-biography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dermot Keogh’s biography of the former Taoiseach Jack Lynch is an impressive and thoroughly researched study of one of the most influential but under-rated figures in Irish politics. It also gives a rare insight into how past political leaders dealt with economic difficulties and in that sense gives us some guidance on how the current generation might best respond.]]></description>
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		<title>People have lost faith in Cowen</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/11/people-have-lost-faith-in-cowen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/11/people-have-lost-faith-in-cowen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bertie Ahern’s governments were famous for an approach to politics and public administration that could best be described as leadership by weather-vane. But in everyday political terms, it suited the time and suited the people, or many of them at any rate. For the medium and long term, however, it was always a lousy approach.]]></description>
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		<title>Medical card row could poison FF&#039;s community roots</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/10/medical-card-row-could-poison-ffs-community-roots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/10/medical-card-row-could-poison-ffs-community-roots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has come to something when a highly successful political machine threatens to seize up completely in the face of an entirely predictable backlash from a Budget decision to end the automatic entitlement of people over 70 to a full medical card. Panic has gripped the Government backbenches and it threatens to destroy Brian Cowen’s fledgling administration, unless he can find a way of maintaining older people’s entitlements while reining in skyrocketing costs.]]></description>
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		<title>High Court&#039;s ruling will not affect drive to cut drug costs</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/10/high-courts-ruling-will-not-affect-drive-to-cut-drug-costs-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/10/high-courts-ruling-will-not-affect-drive-to-cut-drug-costs-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although many pharmacies have taken some comfort from the recent High Court judgment in the action by the Hickey Group of companies against the Health Service Executive, the judgment itself will make little, if any, difference in the long run. However, it clarifies that certain procedures must be followed and that key decisions must be made by the Minister.]]></description>
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		<title>Pricing report brings pharmacy deal closer</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/09/pricing-report-brings-pharmacy-deal-closer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/09/pricing-report-brings-pharmacy-deal-closer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The report of the Pricing Body on a new fee structure for community pharmacies has attracted surprisingly little attention in the silly season, but all that is set to change as the Minister for Health prepares to bring it to Government.]]></description>
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		<title>Pharmacy contract must try to satisfy all parties</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/06/pharmacy-contract-must-try-to-satisfy-all-parties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of a new community pharmacy contract, which has fallen below the radar recently, is likely to resurface in the near future as the process for setting a new dispensing fee and specifying new clinical services is brought closer to finality.]]></description>
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		<title>Lisbon Treaty is the first big test of the new Taoiseach</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/06/lisbon-treaty-is-the-first-big-test-of-the-new-taoiseach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/06/lisbon-treaty-is-the-first-big-test-of-the-new-taoiseach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has read the Lisbon Treaty from cover to cover should wear their achievement like a badge of honour. Taoiseach Brian Cowen was honest enough to admit he hadn’t read all of it, while businessman Ulick McEvaddy admitted he couldn’t read it at all. You’ll know the feeling if you’ve tried.]]></description>
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		<title>Pharmacy contract can help unite primary health services</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/05/pharmacy-contract-can-help-unite-primary-health-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/05/pharmacy-contract-can-help-unite-primary-health-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 09:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tendency of any military is always to fight the last war. The biggest danger for the community pharmacy sector is that it will allow the row over reimbursement rates for medicines it dispenses under the community drug schemes to cloud its judgment on what it can and should achieve in a new pharmacy contract.]]></description>
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		<title>HSE knows jaw-jaw better than war-war with pharmacists</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/05/hse-knows-jaw-jaw-better-than-war-war-with-pharmacists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/05/hse-knows-jaw-jaw-better-than-war-war-with-pharmacists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadlock in the long-running dispute between community chemists and the HSE appears finally to be broken with news emerging of a settlement of sorts. Everything now depends on the recommendations made by the Independent Body for Community Pharmacy Dispensing Fee, which is chaired by Mr Sean Dorgan, former head of the Industrial Development Agency.]]></description>
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		<title>HSE is lightning rod for anger over public services</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/04/hse-is-lightning-rod-for-anger-over-public-services/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/04/hse-is-lightning-rod-for-anger-over-public-services/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has come to something when a former Taoiseach publicly derides the quality of our public services and administration, and directs such a frank and forthright attack at the current political establishment for its handling of the health sector.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to seize the opportunity for a proper e-health system</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/04/time-to-seize-the-opportunity-for-a-proper-e-health-system/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/04/time-to-seize-the-opportunity-for-a-proper-e-health-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthcare systems and services across the developed world have had mixed success with the introduction and application of information and communications technology. The landscape is littered with the corpses of costly, high-profile failures. PPARS, the ill-fated project for modernising health service payroll and personnel systems, is probably the most high-profile failure of any information technology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ides of March don&#039;t bode well for chemists</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/03/ides-of-march-dont-bode-well-for-chemists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/03/ides-of-march-dont-bode-well-for-chemists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Roman world, the most infamous of the Ides fell on the day in 44 BC when the emperor Julius Caesar, having summoned the Senate but ignored the advice of a seer, met a bloody end in the Theatre of Pompey.]]></description>
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		<title>Bitter price-pill for chemists to swallow</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/02/bitter-price-pill-for-chemists-to-swallow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/02/bitter-price-pill-for-chemists-to-swallow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the 1 March deadline approaches for a new wholesale prices regime for medicines, the Irish Pharmaceutical Union (IPU) is fighting a determined rearguard action to thwart a policy it believes will lead to the closure of hundreds of pharmacies and the loss of thousands of jobs.]]></description>
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		<title>New president, accessible healthcare?</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2008/02/new-president-accessible-healthcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 71-year-old Arizona Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney locked in a battle for the soul of the Republican party and little more than a hair’s breadth between the Democratic party’s front runners, all eyes are now on ‘Tsunami Tuesday’, when upwards of twenty states hold their primaries.]]></description>
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		<title>Could PPARS happen again?</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/11/could-ppars-happen-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PPARS, it will be recalled, was the high-tech, high-spec replacement for the health boards’ creaking payroll, personnel and scheduling systems; a massive project in which computerisation across the health service was to be linked with radical change in management at every level within it.]]></description>
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		<title>Health plans are only green around the edges</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/06/health-plans-are-only-green-around-the-edges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/06/health-plans-are-only-green-around-the-edges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The appointment of Green Party ministers to deal primarily with energy, the environment and local government is a clear signal that the Greens’ strategy is to try to make a difference in a few key areas that are close to its heart, rather than spreading itself thinly across too many policy sectors.]]></description>
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		<title>Lazarus-like recovery for Hanly after election</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/06/lazarus-like-recovery-for-hanly-after-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/06/lazarus-like-recovery-for-hanly-after-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election 2007 was notable for the extent to which independent candidates, especially those who stood previously on a health/hospital services ticket, haemorrhaged support to the two main political parties.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking health, voting wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/06/9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN the end, the calculation was simple enough. Voters were just too terrified to trade what they had for seemingly vague promises that so much more might be achieved. Although they thought health, they voted wealth.]]></description>
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		<title>Failure to redraw constituencies could put election on the rocks</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/04/failure-to-redraw-constituencies-could-put-election-on-the-rocks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/04/failure-to-redraw-constituencies-could-put-election-on-the-rocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government’s failure to revise the constituencies in advance of the general election, when it knew there was a problem following the publication of the preliminary census data, was always a risky strategy. The inevitable legal challenge means our political system is entering uncharted waters.]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors may decide outcome of election</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/04/doctors-may-decide-outcome-of-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/04/doctors-may-decide-outcome-of-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the party conference season now over, voters should be better placed to judge what the two most talked about alternative governments will do on the health issue. All parties are certainly promising more. What’s not yet clear is whether more of many things will mean better or different.]]></description>
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		<title>What rewards for risks in the public service?</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/02/what-rewards-for-risks-in-the-public-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2007/02/what-rewards-for-risks-in-the-public-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The departure of Aidan Browne as head of Primary, Community and Care at the Health Service Executive (HSE) received little more than a brief mention in the media, and seems to have evoked no surprise at all in the HSE.]]></description>
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		<title>Supply security at the heart of Corrib Gas controversy</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/08/supply-security-at-the-heart-of-corrib-gas-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/08/supply-security-at-the-heart-of-corrib-gas-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has observed the stand-off between Shell &#38; Enterprise Petroleum Ireland on the one hand, and the Rossport 5 / Shell-to-Sea campaign on the other, especially from a distance, will have been struck and surprised at why and how much things were allowed to get out of hand. Even when it was clear that neither the firm nor the protestors could win, no-one shouted stop.]]></description>
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		<title>New children&#039;s hospital cannot be delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/06/new-childrens-hospital-cannot-be-delayed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/06/new-childrens-hospital-cannot-be-delayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who saw the television series on Our Lady’s Hospital in Crumlin could not but have been moved by the pictures of desperately sick and disabled children.

Who could forget the worry and uncertainty etched on the faces of their parents, who accepted the best – and in some cases endured the worst – that the health services could throw at them? Who could forget the heroism and personal touches of an army of dedicated staff who were working in often impossible conditions?]]></description>
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		<title>Are doctor politicians the right prescription?</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/06/are-doctor-politicians-the-right-prescription/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fine Gael has a mountain to climb if it is to get back into government, but its most pressing issue right now is to get out of base camp. Whether it should be looking to the ranks of the medical profession to provide the sherpas for the next election is an appealing strategy, but one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital offer has Executive in a spin</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/05/hospital-offer-has-executive-in-a-spin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/05/hospital-offer-has-executive-in-a-spin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 12:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that public opinion these days is divided between those who believe that solicitor and property magnate, Noel Smyth, is motivated by a genuine desire to build a new national children’s hospital that will take us at least 50 years into the future, and those who are convinced that the Scottish economist, Adam Smith (no relation) got it right when he said: “I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.”]]></description>
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		<title>Slaying the beast of the bed count</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/01/slaying-the-beast-of-the-bed-count/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/01/slaying-the-beast-of-the-bed-count/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most telling comment in the early days of the reform programme came from a senior manager of a former health board who said, almost proudly: “We’re making it up as we go along.” It wasn’t so much a buccaneering streak taking hold of the bureaucracy, more a case of whistling past the graveyard where all the old certainties were being buried.]]></description>
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		<title>Beggared on a beach of gold</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/01/beggared-on-a-beach-of-gold/</link>
		<comments>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2006/01/beggared-on-a-beach-of-gold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Outside Bangor Erris, a massive roadside hoarding tells you that you’re about to enter the crucible that grabbed national and international news coverage throughout the summer of 2005. Up near Bellinaboy, site of the processing terminal for the Corrib Gas Field, another single large sign sits uneasily among a myriad of small, hastily painted, plastic signs denouncing the corporate intruder.]]></description>
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		<title>PPARS &#8211; the road to hell?</title>
		<link>http://www.kealanflynn.ie/2005/12/ppars-the-road-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his first ministerial engagement after handing over the health portfolio, Micheál Martin smiled as though the weight of the world had been lifted from his shoulders.]]></description>
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		<title>Compromise key to Corrib Gas impasse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rossport 5]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Shell and the Rossport 5 have fought each other to a standstill, and the political temperature has cooled, the way may be clear for a viable solution to the problem. Although both sides remain deeply entrenched and intensely hostile towards each other, there is a sequence, a solution that might get both sides off the hook.]]></description>
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		<title>Ailing service badly in need of a cure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brendan Drumm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Professor Brendan Drumm takes the tiller at the HSE next Monday, he will inherit a health service that is ailing badly and sorely in need of a cure.]]></description>
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