National maximum wage-earners should try living on minimum rate

ANYBODY who happened to listen in to a particular RTÉ radio programme during the week would be forgiven for thinking they had come across another appeal for some Third World country hit by another disaster.

They would have been somewhat right, as people phoned in about our disastrous health service which would even embarrass the Third World.

Joe Duffy’s Liveline was discussing the hospital beds crisis which has put more than 300 unfortunate people on trollies and nurses on the streets in protest.