Tuesday, September 9, 2014

In defence of hospital staff

A heading in today's Irish Times runs:

"As the family gathered around his body, a tea lady opened the curtain and said, 'Is there breakfast here?' "

As my mother lay dead in a bed in a Dublin hospital a cleaning lady came and asked me and my father if we wanted a glass of water.

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