Media censorship in Wexford

In this weeks Wexford People newspaper, Maria Pepper questions whether the threat to Wexford hospital is real or imagined.




Over eight thousand people marched the streets of Wexford town last Saturday to show their contempt and resistence to government moves to downgrade and destroy various sections of Wexfords health service. They went out onto the streets in the belief that it was a pre-emptive strike against any future cuts.

But Ms Pepper believes that the people, only 4000 she claims, went out to face down an imagined threat, as the HSE's hospital committee report has not been published yet.

Strange that Maria Pepper, a prominent Wexford journalist, who should have her finger on the pulse of the county, failed to hear Noel Dempsey tell the people of Wexford that they should be prepared to lose their A&E service, on south east radio last week. Mr Dempsey, who was attending a Fianna Fail meeting in the county, left Rathangan Sinn Féin in no doubt about the intentions of the HSE towards Wexfords hospital.



Does Ms Pepper believe that Noel Dempsey made these comments to court controversy?



Or does she have trouble remembering events, such as the many SF health rallys held in Wexford over the past number of years?

She certainly didnt mention any of them in them in her report.