Comments on: Help the Chernobyl children at home

By: D. Kelleher

D. Kelleher — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:50:25 +0000

Why does there seem to be no concern about the possible danger to Irish children of radioactive contamination picked up from these unfortunate children coming from Chernobyl? Isn’t Adi Roche, in this respect, only making a bad situation worse, despite her good intentions? I have never seen or heard this question even hinted at. Why is this – am I missing something? Am I pointing at the naked emperor?

Dan.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:37:29 +0000

I have travelled to belarus on a number of occasions to work in orphanages and i was quite shocked to see that the majority of the children are in quite a good condition. they eat their own home grown food, work for a fair pay on their own farm and have good washing facilities. there is alot of propanganda with aidi roche but you cant blaim someone for being “overreactive” about shining a bit of attention on the subject.

By: soubresauts

soubresauts — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:15:54 +0000

“the spam picked it up”, you say. But my comment was visible on this page for hours after I posted it; then it was deleted.

Either you have a very strange delayed-action spam blocker, or you mean something different by “spam”…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:42:52 +0000

nope. you put so many links in it, the spam picked it up.

if you try again, put it one link at a time.

By: soubresauts

soubresauts — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:21:24 +0000

“How can you criticise Adi Roche?” Sarah asks. How can you criticize Sarah Carey?

I had the temerity to criticize Sarah. So she deleted my comment.

I’ll try again. I suggest people read Adi Roche’s rebuttal of Sarah’s article.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:34:40 +0000

Good post Sarah.
Re Nonnys’ rant.Ugh.I have noticed you coming up on a number of other posts(namely Fatmammycats about private schooling) ranting and raving and telling people how they disgust you whenever they hold a view contradictory to your own.
Can you not make your feelings on the subject known without resorting to personnel abuse?If you can’t read someone elses’ opinion on a subject,may I suggest writing your own piece and reading it to yourself in the mirror,as I’m sure that is the only view you have an interest in seeing.

By: killian

killian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:32:16 +0000

As someone who was an aid worker and worked in former communist bloc countries for five years I have to say this is an excellent post.

By: Darren J. Prior

Darren J. Prior — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:48:48 +0000

You can delete this comment Sarah but don’t forget that link we talked about. Unless you want me to think that you are totally partitionist…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:45:49 +0000

Yes, a reply which pointed the huge number of internal contradictions in your post would be troublesome.

By: Nonny

Nonny — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:20:49 +0000

This post is utterly horrendous, how you can take away the goodness that this lady does in a few off the cuff unfounded remarks is absolutely pathetic. You make references to the World Health Organisations conclusions; these are the people that rank the Irish Health Care System nineteenth in the world.

Those little children are given a chance each year to see normality, to see that there is good in the world. Who could blame that sixteen-year-old not wanting to return to the hell that is her life? How on earth can any moral person side with a government that’s children are half starved, that’s health care policies are so appalling children have to suffer horrendous medical procedures with no anaesthetic. They have a president who cares more about lengthening his term in office than improving the lives of his citizens. This is a country headed by greedy dictators who continually show blatant disregard for their people and you have the audacity to liken them to the Irish government. Their government are oppressors.

Off course we would take enormous offence to wealthy Americans coming over to “help” us, mainly because despite its many failing our government provide free education, decent social welfare, a medical care system (though feeble, still better) and possibly most notably we have freedom. We are quite capable of bringing our children abroad to show them the nicer things in life, the Make a Wish Foundation is a testament to it. Comparing a holiday in Disneyland to Aide Roche taking sick children to Ireland in order to avail of life saving operations is disgusting. It really is disgraceful.

Aside from the fact that whatever charity Ms Roche decides to support is none of your business. I have no doubt she does a hell of a lot more than you do. Before she embarked on her plight to help those children, those babies were left to die or be damned to a life of misery in an asylum with no prospect of anybody coming to help them. The only words of wisdom you can muster is, “So what they need is help to get on with their lives”. If you had actually watched the programme which clearly you didn’t you would have seem that Mrs Roches foundations have built a new orphanage for those children with good facilities. Her charity has build homes for young people to live in. Instead of being forced into an institution they have a chance to get on with a real life now. Hopefully by the end of this year Gomel children’s hospital will have an anaesthesia machine. Unfortunately for those little children that could have came to Ireland and availed of corrective surgery in the hope that they too (Yes they are people too dear) would get “help to get on with their lives” they have had that hope taken from them and the worst part is people like you condone it. Would that not have helped them get on with their lives?

If your friend Tom McEneaney has no grievances with innocent children being left in filthy rancid orphanages with no medical care, no education and no prospect of getting out. If he thinks that is ok, then like you, he is either morally void or he is simply trying to justify why he does nothing about it.

I don’t expect a reply nor do I want one but I am disgusted to think such heartless people exist.

Nonny