The popular website’s questioning of the parading of the Olympic torch through Dublin and allowing pop duo Jedward to carry it did not please some Irish tweeters.
Either the Daily Mail columnist is a complete ass and believes every word she writes, or she’s being deliberately provocative – and perpetuating the old porky that women detest other women.
Meanwhile former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan is under increasing pressure to return home from the US, in the wake of hacking allegations by Heather Mills.
THE DAILY MAIL might not be to everyone’s tastes, but here’s something creative that even the stoniest anti-Mail heart will acknowledge.
Most websites – including TheJournal.ie – have what’s called a robots.txt file, which is read by search engine robots and tells them what content not to include in their search results.
Blogger Malcolm Coles, however, has noticed that in the Daily Mail’s robots.txt file, amidst all of the usual technobabble, lies this piece:
It’s a little akin to Google’s Silicon Valley billboard posing a puzzle to passers-by, who are directed to a submit-your-CV page if they can come up with the right answer.
By the way – if you get this job, do let us know and we’ll send you our bank account details. Ta.
SIXTY-EIGHT PER cent of patients are unaware that they can officially complain about their hospital stay.
An Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare survey revealed that although 93 per cent of the patients surveyed were satisfied with the service they received, one in every five wanted to discuss an area of dissatisfaction but a third felt they never had the opportunity to do so.
The aspects of care that patients were most dissatisfied with included emergency department conditions and waiting times and lack of information about hospital routines, tests, medication side effects and after-care.
So today we want to know: Have you ever lodged a complaint about a hospital?
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