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Article: 'It's not about patients and how we treat them'

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September 15, 2009
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HEART BEAT: The talk is of cuts and diminution of services; not about the health of the Irish people, writes MAURICE NELIGAN

EDMUND BURKE, Irishman and graduate of Trinity, distinguished British Parliamentarian and advocate of civil liberties, wrote while condemning the excesses of the French Revolutionaries, that they had shown themselves to be "the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world". It's as well he lived before our lot got going.

I think we could do with like minded forthright politicians. Among the causes Burke championed were free trade between Britain and Ireland and Catholic Emancipation.

At the time he was sitting as MP for Bristol. He took a ...

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