Aisling R

I'm a Stay at home mum of 4 but got it done in half the time 2 sets of twins :-)

[SnDMedia @SnDMediaNews]

Portlaoise Exposed: Why Ireland Must Reduce Its Dependence on Overseas Healthcare Workers

The latest fitness-to-practice inquiry by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland has exposed serious lapses at Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise. Indian-trained nurse Jinimol George admitted multiple failures in 2022 affecting nine patients. These included incorrect early warning scores that delayed care, one patient suffered a cardiac arrest, wrong ambulance handovers, failure to administer prescribed medications such as Xanax and painkillers, and inadequate observations.

This is not an isolated case. Other inquiries involving foreign-trained staff include medication record falsification by Carmelita Bacani, chart falsification by Mark Lester Ordonez, poor performance findings against Ken Principio Zerna, Ana Raquel Batista Trindade and Joanna Izabela Szafraniak, and Ilankathir Sathivel’s admission of misconduct linked to a patient’s fatal brain injury.

A more disturbing case involved Nigerian-origin healthcare assistant Emmanuel Adeniji, who was jailed for raping a 73-year-old Alzheimer’s patient in a Kildare HSE nursing home in 2020. In 2024, Zimbabwean carer Precious Moyo received an eight-year sentence for stealing €34,000 from elderly clients she had previously nursed in Athlone and for carrying out violent burglaries.

These incidents understandably alarm families who entrust vulnerable loved ones to the system. Ireland’s elderly and frail patients deserve the highest standards of competent, compassionate care, ideally delivered by our own empathetic, highly trained Irish healthcare professionals.
Recent revelations from India highlight the global scale of credential fraud. In late 2025, Kerala Police dismantled a major fake degree racket, seizing over 100,000 counterfeit certificates linked to 22 institutions, with estimates of more than one million fraudulent documents, many in medicine and nursing, in circulation throughout the world.

In Ireland, Dr. Amir Taherzadeh’s case shows the risk is real. In 2025, the Medical Council found him guilty of professional misconduct for submitting fake diplomas from Charles University in Prague to register as a specialist cardiologist. He had worked in several Irish hospitals before the forgery was uncovered.

Ireland’s health service has become heavily dependent on overseas recruitment, with over 50 percent of nurses and around 43 percent of doctors foreign-trained, among the highest rates in Europe. While many foreign staff provide dedicated service, thousands of highly Irish-trained nurses and doctors continue to emigrate annually to Australia, Canada, the US and the Gulf for better pay, conditions and work-life balance. Real challenges arise from differences in training standards, protocols, communication and cultural familiarity, particularly when caring for elderly patients with dementia. We are constantly told these are the doctors and nurses who take care of us when we are sick, yet the lived experience of many service users reflects a very different story.

The long-term solution must be greater self-sufficiency: a predominantly Irish-trained workforce that is stable and accountable in Ireland.

By tackling root causes through targeted policies, we can deliver safer, more empathetic care for our most vulnerable, prioritise our own highly trained professionals, and create incentive packages for the thousands abroad to return home.

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has recently echoed this sentiment, calling for prioritising Irish workers by restricting work visas for roles that can be filled locally. He highlights a clear mismatch between the government’s visa policies and the available domestic labour supply, arguing that employment permits should only be granted for genuinely essential positions where no suitable Irish candidates can be found.

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

You couldn't make this up!!

At a time when the EU is taking Ireland to court over cutting turf,

The FF, FG & Independents government is signing up to the EU Migration Pact so the EU can fine us over that issue too!
https://t.co/ZUsbldqDhz

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@paddymacc1 We are being taxed our of existence and where are all the taxes spent?.Not on health care for homes for the Irish, our government hate us.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@Ryder56004614 There's one place to avoid, like who doesn't being snacks into their hotel room 😂

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@Toibin1 Sure they have to cover the cost of the data centres.

[The Irish Zone 🇮🇪 🦌 @NoelZone]

The irish government and TDs in leinster house do not represent me or the irish people. Their views and stances do not aline with mine.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

https://t.co/DQcOexMbhE

[Hermann Kelly IFP @hermannkelly]

An Irishman tries to access his own land to cut turf, but the State's Bord na Móna brings in a small foreign mercenary army to threaten and block him.
This is a foretaste of what the EU- compliant Irish state has in store for you.
🇮🇪 Garrymore Bog, County Laois.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@CarlowWeather Weather for the bog 😉

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Kiev is safe enough for every single EU leader, Their Royal families, their Ministers, and every third rate Western grifter to walk the streets, no body armour, no helmets no shame.

But we're told the Ukrainain "Refugees" costing us billions had no choice but to "flee?" as they complain about being asked to fend for themselves?

In Kiev Tonight, Apr 28, 2026
Airbnb has 6,900–8,580 active short term rentals (apartments/homes) available. 1,000+ available for immediate booking.

Booking . Com & hotels have 2,618 hotels/properties in Kiev alone (thousands of rooms open)

Local sites (doba .ua etc) 60–70+ apartments hourly/daily right now.
Homes/apartments, most sleep 2–6 guests with 1–3 bedrooms/beds.
Prices from €20–50/night for basics.

Ukraine has thousands of empty beds/rooms in its capital tonight, plenty of space to accommodate the so called "Refugees"

Thats the reality. These are the facts. And the Dictatorship now has 90 billion more of our cash to pay the bills with.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@SuzieD755164 Is Wexford on the list?

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@Tacomylo It just simply should not be allowed, our government have so much disdain for us. They just need to go end of, the Irish people need to be prioritised ahead of Europe.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@Unconvinced99 @Ben_Scallan They are horrific, we moved one went up behind out house, the noise levels. The flickering so hard to live with. Constant headaches, tinnitus and vertigo now. Solar is great during the summer longer days but not worth a hoot in winter.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@Screwfix Flapper required 😂 released it, fitted it and now it won't release again.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

Ok just call me the plumber today 👀 but could end up in a trip to Screwfix 😭 flapper from the cistern now detached and descaling. Let's see how this goes when I try put things back together. Just can listen to it constantly running anymore 🙄😀

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@Screwfix Toiché 😂

But have flapper on standby 😉

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[Aisling R @RozMM]

@noshiteplease You do have rights outside of the manufacturer warrantee under the sale of goods act, item has to be fit for purpose and have a reasonable lifespan.

[Aisling R @RozMM]

@noshiteplease A strange one indeed, you can just top up online shouldn't be any issues there. Your discriminated against for registering as vunerable, himself has a CPAP and our account is registered a vulnerable interesting to know.