Ten years on and we’re still in a trolley crisis

Your editorial on the nurses’ strike and what you call ‘the appalling mess of Ireland’s ailing health service’ reminded me of the totally opposite sentiments which were expressed in the Irish media during the height of the boom.

Then the government were being applauded for offering ‘new roads and hospitals where you won’t die waiting for a bed’.

This was being hailed as ‘an extraordinary journey of sustained national achievement’ in which ‘all the great battles on corruption and taxation had been won’.

Now more than a decade later, and after the country went bankrupt, corruption and taxation are still making the headlines for all the wrong reasons and the health service is still having problems.

We should, therefore, wonder why the unjustified optimism of the past was not challenged.

A Leavy

Shielmartin Drive

Sutton

Dublin 13