Suddenly the Gov are concerned about people missing hospital appointments.
These are the same people who allowed children to die because their names were covertly taken off waiting lists.
The same Government that let #scoliosis curvatures become inoperable.
Now they care!
Daughter is 7 weeks old- she had life saving surgery day 1 of life. I spent 2 weeks standing over her bassinet in the NICU, crying in the middle of the night, asking God why this was happening to my daughter and begging for strength to persevere while working 7 days a week in the middle of the NFL season. Wife and I haven’t slept more than 4 hrs/night since Nov. Last night, while holding her at 2 am, she briefly stopped screaming and made eye contact with me and smiled for the first time. No amount of success/money/fame/worldly reward has even sniffed the amount of purpose and fulfillment that single moment brought me.
Before today's sentence was passed, Ashling Murphy's sister Amy told the court of the family's anger at the "injustice of it all" and the "staggering" public cost to pay for legal teams that could have been directed to "vital and underfunded services across Ireland".
She said her family felt "gaslit" when barristers for each of the accused described their clients as holding family values and wanting to educate their children and create a better life for them.
"How dare they speak those words?" she said. "Words they clearly don't live by and that their actions completely contradict."
"Our parents worked incredibly hard to provide for us, to ensure we were educated and to instil in us a strong work ethic, integrity and moral responsibility. To sit there and hear those values twisted and used in defence of people who have demonstrated none of those qualities was infuriating.
"It felt deeply insulting to Ashling, to our parents and to everything decent families stand for."
⚡️#BREAKING Trump: "We have two countries (Israel and Iran) that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they are doing"