Susan Hated Literature

I meant to write about the withdrawal of the HPV vaccination when I heard mention of it on TV3 yesterday, or the day before. But I forgot about it. Luckily Ginger Pixel reminded me, and alerted me to an interesting idea. A Ray Darcy show listener suggested that people send emails with photos of their daughters directly to the person responsible. Who is, of course, the wonderful Mary Harney. There is a form on the Today fm site or you can email the minister at minister’s_office@health.irlgov.ie

A women’s welfare group is criticising the Government’s plans to abandon the HPV vaccination programme. The Dublin Well Woman Centre says the move is both short-sighted and dangerous. The HPV vaccine is given to young girls to target the virus that causes cervical cancer. Health Minister Mary Harney announced yesterday that the plan was being rolled back because of budget constraints. CEO of the Well Woman Centre Alison Begas said that it was an illogical move that will cost even more in the long-term

Only last June the Health Information and Quality Authority said that girls should be vaccinated, and told

Health Minister Mary Harney that such a vaccination programme would also be cost-effective, weighing up the cost of administrating the vaccine versus its effectiveness in preventing cervical cancer and in terms of savings made in the cost of treating women who without the vaccine might get cervical cancer

But sure never mind that, lets just follow the usual government deal of knee-jerk reactionary measures that’ll turn out worse in the long-run.

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Well I’ve finished work for the year. Am currently, at this very moment, sitting around doing nothing when in fact I should be out buying the one or two things I’ll need for Christmas. I blame Ray D’Arcy. My alarm went off at 10.30, figured I’d be up and showered by 11 and out on the streets of Dublin before 12 at the very latest. That was I’d miss all the people taking their half day’s shopping today. Course it’d still be dubh le daoine^[1] but I’m only heading to the Jervis Centre and maybe Penney’s. But I had to get listening to Ray. And then he mentioned that Declan O’Rourke would be in soon, so I figured, ah, I’ll listen to him sing.

He wasn’t on the bloody radio for ages, and then he only sang one song, but again Ray kept me listening by telling me that he’d be doing a cover of Anthony and the Johnsons’ song Hope There’s Someone, so I stayed, reading and listening at the same time.

What time did I finally get to hear it at? 12 o’clock. Still it was very good. I’ve only heard Declan O’Rourke’s song Sarah (Last night in a dream) before, NM sent me an mp3 of it, and I’ve been meaning to listen to more. And hearing him sing Hope There’s Someone means I really have to go look for his album. I know that won’t be one it, but still, maybe there’ll be another Even Better Than The Real Thing album out soon.

So because of Ray and Declan I’m so delayed it isn’t even funny. And what am I doing, faffng about webland. Disgraceful I tells ya.

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