Liveline thread 12/08/16 to date

Atlantic Dawn · 28-09-2016 12:45pm

Red Kev wrote: »

My own experiences of pharmacies during my Dad's illness is that most of them are blatant rip offs.

My Dad was on about 700 tablets a month, I used to sort them by hand every week, then the local chemist got the blister pack sorter in. Started at €15, then €17, €20 and €25. When it went to €35 I said forget it, I'll go back to doing it by hand, so the price went back to €25.

I picked him up at the community Centre one day and they'd all been talking about the prices, turns out they were being charged everything from €10 to €30, no matter how many tablets they had. There was a woman there who is charged £4 in NI for the same service. This kind of price variation seems to be common in the area, €20 is the norm.

The thing about blister packs is that for the elderly it's a great help as there's no confusion involved and as a result it's something that's been taken advantage of by chemists. I've a second cousin who opened two pharmacies in rough areas of Dublin solely with the intention of distributing prescription uppers and downers to the locals, all perfectly legal. He did it with a chemist from the UK, who let it out that they made 4-5 times the profit in Ireland on that gear that they made in the UK.

When a town has more pharmacys than pubs you know it's a big money racket.

Hitchens · 28-09-2016 12:52pm

He'll love diss, months mind and all!

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-know-22-of-my-former-pupils-are-buried-in-one-graveyard-priest-reveals-devastation-in-one-community-35086362.html

TheHomeService · 28-09-2016 1:08pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

When a town has more pharmacys than pubs you know it's a big money racket.

Same for bookies shops!

misslemon · 28-09-2016 1:25pm

I'm guessing Joe will give the pharmacies a miss. There's an advert on the Liveline page for Lloyd's. Now that might be generated for me because I read the news story on it, but I think I remember hearing Lloyds pharmacy adverts during the Joe Duffy show before.

Not long to wait now anyway.

somesoldiers · 28-09-2016 1:29pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

When a town has more pharmacys than pubs you know it's a big money racket.

We counted 8 on one stretch in Wexford town recently, must be a lot of sick people in Wexford

6 addresses below am sure there are more

Fehily’s Pharmacy, 28 S Main St, Wexford
Fortune’s Pharmacy, 82 N Main St, Wexford
Boots’s Pharmacy, 54 N Main St, Wexford
Hassett’s Pharmacy, 9-11 N Main St, Wexford
Sherwood’s Pharmacy, 2 N Main St, Wexford
Sam McCauley Chemists, 8/10 N Main St, Wexford

monkey9 · 28-09-2016 1:29pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Today...
De 20 bags of undelivered post found in some house in Louth
Should priests be getting paid at the funerals
Social services card, the old are confused about them
An Irishman has died in Australia, he emigrated to there in 1976, can we find any relatives.
Damascus gate killing, perhaps another visit to this story

Is there a link at all to the missing post story? I had a load of Ticketmaster tickets not arriving around this time last year. Wrote into the GPO and everything about which they investigated and found nothing. It was definitely someone stealing in the sorting office.

somesoldiers · 28-09-2016 1:29pm

misslemon wrote: »

I'm guessing Joe will give the pharmacies a miss. There's an advert on the Liveline page for Lloyd's. Now that might be generated for me because I read the news story on it, but I think I remember hearing Lloyds pharmacy adverts during the Joe Duffy show before.

Not long to wait now anyway.

they were the main sponsor of LL until a few months back

somesoldiers · 28-09-2016 1:30pm

monkey9 wrote: »

Is there a link at all to the missing post story? I had a load of Ticketmaster tickets not arriving around this time last year. Wrote into the GPO and everything about which they investigated and found nothing. It was definitely someone stealing in the sorting office.

Were they for a Garret Brukes concert? if so I have bad news for you

foggy_lad · 28-09-2016 1:31pm

somesoldiers wrote: »

We counted 8 on one stretch in Wexford town recently, must be a lot of sick people in Wexford

6 addresses below am sure there are more

Fehily’s Pharmacy, 28 S Main St, Wexford
Fortune’s Pharmacy, 82 N Main St, Wexford
Boots’s Pharmacy, 54 N Main St, Wexford
Hassett’s Pharmacy, 9-11 N Main St, Wexford
Sherwood’s Pharmacy, 2 N Main St, Wexford
Sam McCauley Chemists, 8/10 N Main St, Wexford

All the shopping centres will have a pharmacy too

monkey9 · 28-09-2016 1:32pm

somesoldiers wrote: »

Were they for a Garret Brukes concert? if so I have bad news for you

I've never been so insulted...

misslemon · 28-09-2016 1:32pm

somesoldiers wrote: »

they were the main sponsor of LL until a few months back

I hope Joe bears a grudge over them not paying them the big bucks anymore. I could do with some entertainment.

somesoldiers · 28-09-2016 1:36pm

foggy_lad wrote: »

All the shopping centres will have a pharmacy too

yeah the above are all on the one stretch of street, not to mention other streets, outskirts and shopping centres

foggy_lad · 28-09-2016 1:36pm

somesoldiers wrote: »

yeah the above are all on the one stretch of street, not to mention other streets, outskirts and shopping centres

That must be the sickest street in Ireland!

sligojoek · 28-09-2016 1:43pm

misslemon wrote: »

I hope Joe bears a grudge over them not paying them the big bucks anymore. I could do with some entertainment.

Not a hope. They are too big for him to take on. He's more comfortable with companies who do people out of a few THOOOUUSAND euro

TheHomeService · 28-09-2016 1:43pm

Will Joe plug the meeting he is hosting about de croime in the unadulterated kip?

TheHomeService · 28-09-2016 1:45pm

Well done to whoever predicted this.

misslemon · 28-09-2016 1:46pm

TheHomeService wrote: »

Will Joe plug the meeting he is hosting about de croime in the unadulterated kip?

I wouldn't be surprised if he has all Garda/crime stories so looks informed in front of the assistant commissioner. God forbid he should research for it himself.

cowboyBuilder · 28-09-2016 1:46pm

Is this Sydney in county Louth ?

:rolleyes:

somesoldiers · 28-09-2016 1:47pm

if they didn't care about him when he was alive hardy going to give a damn now unless he has a few bob which I doubt

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-09-2016 1:48pm

maybe he didnt want to set foot back here again

ButtersSuki · 28-09-2016 1:48pm

TheHomeService wrote: »

Will Joe plug the meeting he is hosting about de croime in the unadulterated kip?

You can bet your ass he will.

cowboyBuilder · 28-09-2016 1:48pm

Get on to the Gooooogle Joe ...

PeterTheNinth · 28-09-2016 1:49pm

Have to agree with the above. It's sad but it's not really worthy of being put on the national airwaves.

sligojoek · 28-09-2016 1:49pm

Is one of the three twins doing research for him in Oz now?

SEPT 23 1989 · 28-09-2016 1:50pm

ashes?

Joe only deals in corpses

Odyssey 2005 · 28-09-2016 1:50pm

W-O-W !

cowboyBuilder · 28-09-2016 1:51pm

Actually you never know, I'm guessing some punter will come on saying he went to school with him back in the 60s - and knew he went to Australia in the mid 70s...