Guth & Tuairim, Meitheamh 1981

...._- - - ~-~------ ~~-~ ·-:"":_,We scarcely had got .:;terted ·- __., ~~~~~!!~&!"""'"-.....- when a native overtool: , The Old Sy1lly Line - • n (\ ·.() Calling 11 Hi, yoill there - 10 T'was that old-tL._ the baster Jack Delap - let me have a lo.ok. " Forget it no, not should I live to get the old-age crm1n, He had merely stopped to ask us if we met a str~- buck-goat, shouting, "',lill you get a move on there and shift this heap of scrap." 11 Full steam ahead, full steam ahead" shouts the Guard He Cool; The morning that I took the train at Letterkenny town. We told him "No" and prayed and hoped we would not meet the brute~ "Full steam lli'J eye~ 11 the fireman said sure there's not an ounce of coal. The bearings too are all red hot The engineer gave a tootle out the guard did loudly scream, "You big-headed idiots you for should he butt the boiler he'd put his head clean through, and there 1 s not a drop of oil." if he tried the buffer plate "Hell spit ori them and cool them," said the driver Hughie Boyle. how dare you waste the steam." :.1nother crash! another bang~ ;and I thought that we were off, ·But the engine was hysterical ·or had the \vhooping cough. that might withstand the strain, But the danger was none-the-less "Alas, Alas," the driver says, he might derail the train. "This is a fretty pass, ·· The gradient now i s all our own which proves a friex.d indeed, Will someone go to Morrison's for the lend of his jackass, •we 1 er far too overloaded boys" ,the guard did loudly bawl, '"Throw off that half a dozen whisks consigned to Hughie Coil, For a great big bull of Rutherfords intended us to spill, Cr better still, try old Dick Graham he's not a bad old sort, ,That gallon jar of whiskey With heaving flanks and tail erect pursued us to Churchill. for a creel of.peat to steam us from Churchill to Burtonport. 11 for He Claffert7; Churchill, We scarcely had apt started when a voice fell on my ears, Nota - Ta muid bufoch do Joe Carr, e thug. ?oip do'n dan seo duinn. .J.nd Buchanan 1 s gross of hair-pins, ·there, thats all thats on the bill. 11 a voice I'll still remember should I live a thousand years. M-R_eHN.nMH The United Nations Organisation designates every second year for a particular purpose. This present year 1981, has been named "International Year of Disabled Persons" or IYDP. By designating a year'in this way, attention in each IPember-country around the globe is focussed on a common subject, concern or group. Thus, the problems and difficulties of a designated group might be better understood by other members of the community. Such International Years serve to mark out periods in time when definite projects can actually be undertaken in order to help deal with the problems of the named group. During this "International Year of Disabled Peri>ons", the attention of the community in this country and in other member-countries of the United Nations Organisation, will be focussed on the handicapped and their problems. The handicapped can .be divided broadly into three groups - the physically handicapped, the mentally handicapped and the mentally ill or the emotionally disabled. The Mental Health Association of Ireland is primarily concerned with the needs and problems of the latter group. These persons do not usually have serious difficulties in the way in which their bodies function as do the physically handicapped. Nor do they have a dis– turbance of their intellectual functioning as do the mentally handi– capped. They do, however, experience problems with their inability to cope normally with the demands of life. In some cases, this inability to cope takes the form ofadisorder such as depression. People who suffer from this kind of disorder can experience overwhelming feelings of sadness, of anxiety and of their own worthlessness. These feelings can sometimes be so strong that the person is unable to work up any energy or enthusiasm for life. In other cases, these emotions may be less strong, but like a nagging toothache, prevent persons from realising their full potential in life. There are many kinds and degrees of mental and emotional disability_ Some are so severe that people suffering from them may have to Spend time in a psychiatric hospital. Others are much less severe and can be dealt with on an out-patient basis. _ . Nowadays, those who have to go into hospital, usually spend a relatively short period of time there. Very few become so disabled as to require permanent hospital care. However, we still have a legacy of some 12,000 people in our psych– iatric hospitals who have been there for two or more years, some for as long as 20 to 30 years. Often the reason for this long period o( hospitalisation has been mainly due to the fact that they have no 1 homes to go to, or no relatives to care for them or no community prepared to support them. Accordingly, during this "International Year of Disabled Person~", .the Mental Health Association of Ireland will be endeavouring to promote in our communities a sense of caring for the mentally and emotionally disabled. We will attempt to do this by devoting much of our energies and resources to projects which have been designed specifically to focus public attention on their needs. We hope that public concern for these people will be expressed t;hrough com– munity involvement in our projects and as a result, the plight of mentally and emotionally disabled persons in our sopiety will be better understood. V - ;41;/'}G Chairman . · ,/'/ ' The Mental Health Association / . ·. 7 /--/· . / P~~ of Ireland. I / ( . Jumping to a conclusion cltQLOUGK .%97&ce ~n/re fii!B MARBLE & STONE FJR'~f?~CSS. (o74) J62I6 MADE TO MEASURE AT VERY DEN PRICES· VISIT OUR SHOWROOMS ICI has announced the discover.r of a new fire-fighting agent knovn as WATER (Wonderful And Total Extinguishing Resource). It is particularly suitable for dealing with fires in buildings, timber yards and ware-houses, and is fairly cheap to produce. It is intended that quanti– ties of about a llillion gallona should be ator!!d in open ponds or reservoirs near urban areas and install~ tions of high risk. WATER is alread7 encountering strong opposition trom safety and environaental groups. Professor Derek O'Laola (no relation) has pointed out that if &nTone immersed their head in a bucket of WATER, it would prove fatal in as little as three minutes. Bach of ICI's proposed reservoirs will contain enough WATIR to fill half a million two-gallon buckets. Each bucketful could be used a hundred tiaea, so there ia enough WATER in one reservoir to kill the entire population of the ux• . ~-~-~ we know, asked a Fire :Brigades spokealll&ll, ( - John Coyle) what would hap~n to this new medium when it was exposec to intense ~heat? It had been reported that WATER was .a consitu.ent of beer. Did this mean that firemen would be tntoxiacted by the fumes? The I.C.A. said that they had obtained a sample of WATER:t found it made clothes shrink. It it did this cotton, what would it do to aen? In Daii, iireann the Minister for the enTiro~~ent was asked if he would prohibit the manufacture and storage of this letbal new material. A full investigation was needed, he replied, and the Major Hazards ccaaittee .;,,, would be asked to reP'rt.