IT is one thing for the HSE to tie itself up in knots in administering the health service but it is quite another to extent that bureaucratic mindset to the detriment of those who depend on it for their very lives.

THEY’VE been labelled the “Irish foreign legion”, “the Celtic Convoy” and the “Green Army”, amongst other things, but one thing is certain — the Irish arrived on Kiwi shores to support Ireland in their droves.