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OKAY, so I am angry and I am going to let that anger drift into this column, a column normally devoted to the world of Irish sport.
Well get to the sport presently. Ill even share my views on Irelands latest World Cup adventure against Cyprus last week and our chances of getting to South Africa.
I might even annoy a few of you with my contentious view that the Compromise Rules series about to kick off between Ireland and Australia in Perth is essentially a waste of time.
Ill probably upset a few Munster fans out there by telling you that Leinsters performance in Saturday nights win over Wasps was as good as any produced by an Irish team in European action.
But first a non-party political broadcast inspired by Saturdays trip to the RDS to watch the aforementioned stroll for the Leinster rugby team in their biggest ever Heineken Cup win over English opposition.
Before I left my Co. Meath hideout to venture out in public once again I spoke to my mother, a 70-year-old with a Catholic interest in sport who happens to think that Brian ODriscoll is completely over-rated, but thats another days work altogether.
On Saturday my mother was in no mood to talk about Driccos chances of hanging on to the Irish captaincy under new coach Declan Kidney ahead of the autumn internationals.
Nor was she too worried about the fact that Giovanni Trapattoni just wont pick Andy Reid no matter what the Sunderland midfielder does or doesnt do, depending on which back page headline you read.
Only one issue is close to my mothers heart right now, the same issue that is dominating and in some cases intimidating the day to day lives of every man and woman her age and older in this wonderful little country of ours.
On Tuesday of last week, as some of us were sweating over Trapattonis team selection for the subsequently mundane game against Cyprus that followed, the government of this land were insulting my mother and her likes in Brian Lenihans hairshirt budget.
Of particular interest to my mothers generation was the decision to means test the medical card for anyone over 70 years of age.
Like many her age my mother, who suffers from chronic asthma by the way, will fail the initial means test proposed for no reason other than the fact that herself and those closest to her have spent their lives working hard, not just for themselves but for the future of the country that has just kicked them in the teeth.
To facilitate a saving
of some 100 million Lenihan Junior whose father was part of the political generation in charge of this country at a time when some of his peers ripped us and the state off at will proposed axing the medical cards previously available as a right to my mother and her peers.
It is fair to say that her blood is still curdling at
the cheek of Lenihan, Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen and their Fianna Fail-Green Party alliance to even consider this proposal.
Now, while she prepares to march on the Dail (Parliament) in a one-woman protest if no one else wants to know, well get back to sport, but you will soon discover the link that inspired this rant in the first place.
On Saturday afternoon, as the rugby traffic converged on Ballsbridge ahead of the Leinster-Wasps game and turned the area into a typical Dublin jam, I had a brainwave.
Instead of wading my way through the main road to the RDS I opted to cut down the side of Lansdowne Road and across by the AIB Bank Center to the home of Leinster rugby.
It was, I have to say, quite a brilliant idea. While many of those sat in front of me in the queue were still battling their way through traffic I was enjoying a cup of tea and a sandwich or two in the press room at the RDS.
By then, however, my blood was boiling as much as my mothers having driven down the side of the new Lansdowne Road stadium that is rapidly filling the skyline in Dublin 4.
Rising towards the clouds and the heavens above it makes for an impressive looking building, even this early in its creation.
In time no doubt it will be a suitable home for Irish rugby and soccer, one the IRFU and the FAI can be proud of.
Thats not my goal at the moment. As I drove past the new Lansdowne on Saturday I thought of my mother and her asthma and the governments attempt to remove her right to proper medical care at a time in her life when she will probably need it more than ever.
Consider the facts. That prat Lenihan and his Cowen cronies wanted to deny my mother her medical card to make a saving of roughly 100 million.
Thats rich coming from the same government which has already signed off on a capital payment of some 190million towards the redevelopment of Lansdowne Road when we already have a stadium almost twice as big and perfectly adequate for all our international sporting needs at Croke Park.
Now you tell me who deserves our public money more - those rebuilding Lansdowne Road, or those who have served their country well down the years but are now expected to fend for themselves when it comes to health care at the most precarious time of their lives.
Sorry for the non-party political broadcast, but I just had to get this off my chest. And if you think Im ranting - or barking mad - then steer well clear of my mother.
PS: As I write this column the government has just announced a climb-down of sorts on the medical card issue

'It's tough even when times are good,' she said. 'The out-of-pocket is still thousands a year.'
Dr. Ted Epperly, a family physician at a Boise, Idaho, clinic for the poor, said office visits were down 20 percent in August, mostly in prenatal visits by pregnant women and checkups for chronic conditions such as high blood pressure, asthma and diabetes.
'The longer it goes and the more skipped visits, the greater the opportunity there will be for bad outcomes,' Epperly said. 'It's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when.'
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