A YOUNG local mother has hit out after her sick baby was sent to Craigavon for urgent treatment after a seven-hour wait in the RVH’s A&E department.And Mary McNulty says staff at the A&E department of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children urged her to make an official complaint about a lack of beds at the facility as it was the “only way” that hospital bosses would sit up and take notice of the problem.
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Cuba plays the race ace
It’s 1944 and World War II rages on land, sea and in the air. The US Air Force is engaged daily in violent scraps with the Nazi menace and the airborne battles above Italy and Germany are taking their toll as the Luftwaffe fight for survival in the skies above Europe.
Lack of funding forces playgroup closure
A VITAL local children’s playgroup that has served the Turf Lodge area for 30 years will close its doors for the last time at the end of the month due to a lack of funding.Holy Trinity Playgroup were told by letter this week that money from the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust would not be made available to them for the coming school year, forcing the closure of the facility and causing job losses.
Sporting summer will hit blood supply
THE upcoming summer of big sporting fixtures could have a detrimental impact on blood stocks for seriously ill people, says the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service (NIBTS).Service spokesperson Paul McElkerney was speaking as West Belfast gears up for a packed summer of top sport, including the Championship, Euro 2012 and the Olympic Games.
CBS pupils show their bright potential
STAFF and Year 11 pupils from the Christian Brothers School on the Glen Road recently completed a ‘life coaching’ programme.The course provided a personal development programme aimed at young people aged 13 to 19 at risk of underachievement or exclusion from school. The ‘New Directions’ life coaching sessions were delivered by locally-based life coach Davina Hawkins and outreached by Springhill Community House.
A real glass act
THE Roddy’s isn’t great for mobile phone reception. Or perhaps Squinter should rephrase that and say the Roddy’s isn’t great for iPhone coverage, because a bog standard Nokia with the same service provider works perfectly while the iPhone slips into ‘No Service’ mode the second Squinter takes it out of his pocket. The details of the essential uselessness of the iPhone is a story for another day, so let’s concern ourselves here with the incident at hand.
