Monaghan campaigners to bring chaos to M50
Daragh | September 29, 2006I’ve just read with disgust that protestors from Monaghan, aggrieved (admittedly genuinely) with the downgrading of the emergency status of the hospital recently, are planning on taking their protest from their locality in Monaghan, to cause traffic and transport chaos along the M50 in Dublin.
They are operating under the belief that the seat of power for the country is in Dublin, and until they start to hurt the people of Dublin, that their local issues will not be listened to or addressed.
Now, I for one have serious issues with this. Whilst I have no issues with people expressing their grievances with various powers of authority on any occasion, such are the joys and benefits of democracy, I have a serious issue with people purposely setting out to cause misery and suffering to innocent bystanders who, in this case, already have a miserable time trying to negotiate their way through Dublin traffic to start with!!
What makes this all the more galling, is the fact that The Monaghan Community Hospital Alliance (MCHA) chairman, Peadar Mc Mahon, recognises the fact that he will cause innocent bystanders to suffer “People have died as a result of the downgrading of Monaghan Hospital. We are prepared to go to any lengths to remove that anxiety,”
If you wish to voice your anger, support or otherwise with this cause, please feel free to comment here, participate in our poll (see right) or, contact the Monaghan Hospital Alliance direct, contact details are:
County Monaghan Alliance
C/O Peadar McMahon
Mullan Road,
Emyvale,
Co. Monaghan.
Tel: 086-8156816
email: peadar@emyvale.net
Its the same principle the taxi drivers used a few weeks back in their blocking of O’Connell St. And it worked !
To understand why the protestors would consider this, simply examine their case as they worry for the safety of their loved ones. People have and will die as a result of the scandalous and ill-informed downgrading of Monaghan Hospital. Being late for work is kind of a small price to pay if it might just get the message to a currently indifferent Taoiseach.
The fact that services have been removed from Monaghan means that we now have to go to Dublin to get simple procedures which were formerly available in Monaghan. We are adding to the problems of beds in the capital and therefore the people of Dublin should stand behind this campaign, as it is in all our interests. You complain about your transport problems and yet you seem anxious to have more and more people from rural areas coming to the city for basic services.
The original protest took a different form but on Feb 13th a Business Cavalcade will be travelling to Dublin, consisting of business vehicles – once again to make the point that services can and must be available in Monaghan and we ask you to support us, for your own sake as well as ours.
Thank you.
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