Martin is a Moron

Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson Blasts The Health Service and Calls Michael Martin A Moron !

To rapturous applause, Irish actor Brendan Glesson pulled no punches when discussing the appalling chaos in Ireland's A & E units and referred to the ex minister of health Michael Martin who introduced the smoking ban as a Moron

"Michael Martin’s name was on a plaque in the oncology department where my mother in law was dying. There were people trying to fight for life and cling on to hope beside people who were dead and this moron’s (Micheál Martin) name was on a plaque saying the oncology suite was opened by Michel Martin, when he screwed the place from the time he went in until the time he left."

Irish actor Brendan Gleeson received huge applause while appearing on 'The Late Late Show' hosted by Pat Kenny on Irish state tv. The audience burst into applause when he articulated and gave voice to the seething anger felt throughout Ireland at the appalling chaotic mess that has prevailed in Irish hospital A&E units. Gleeson could barely maintain his composure as he recalled to viewers the trauma his father and mother in law had experienced while being treated in hospitals.

Irish hospitals have degenerated into chaos over the past decade resulting in patients being treated in corridors on trolleys due to lack of beds, wards, resources and incompetent management presided over by health ministers such as Micheal Martin. At one point earlier this year almost 500 patients including cancer, heart attack and road traffic victims were being treated on trolleys in corridors, canteens and other ancillary rooms due to lack of beds and facilities. Brendan Gleeson took up this case with host Pat Kenny and in particular the horrifying and humiliating experience the elderly go through when in need of hospitalisation.

"A baboon could sort this bloody thing out you know"

Gleeson explained the anger he felt at seeing first hand the third world conditions in Irish hospitals which he likened to a war zone. Praising the nurses and staff who have to operate under such conditions he rounded on the bureaucracy and politicians responsible saying " The place is a disgrace, I mean it’s a war crime what’s happening in there. Old people particularly are being left on trolleys ad nausium until they, you know, some of whom have died,"

He told how patients on trolleys all had to share the same unhygienic toilet, men and women, the elderly and the young, the sick and the dying. Rightly infuriated by what he saw he said voting for the current government at the next election would be akin to watching someone beat your elderly parents senseless then patting the perpetrator on the back. He held particular anger for ex minister of health Michael Martin describing him as a moron "There were people trying to fight for life and cling on to hope beside people who were dead and this moron’s (Micheál Martin) name was on a plaque"

Michael Martin while minister for health was notorious for commissioning reports, consultants and task forces costing millions, but never implementing any policies or initiating any plans of action. The one policy he did introduce was the smoking ban which was never stated policy in his party's election manifesto. However smoking was his pet hate and while on charge of the health service, used it's budget and office to lavishly implement and roll out his draconian smoking ban.