Health service a Brit special unlike the HSE

BRITAIN is marking the 70th anniversary of the NHS – and the country has much to celebrate.

At a time when we were putting women and children in hellish laundries and infants were dying from neglect in homes, the UK had a health service that did not bill patients.

Yet in 2018 Ireland has barely a health service never mind one that’s free. At the opening ceremony NHS founder Nye Bevin: “It was a milestone in history – the most civilised step any country had ever taken.”

This man was a secular saint who saved more lives than all supposed holy leaders.

As for Ireland we had an ocean of religion, but no real saints and no health service.