SAD NEWS just in from Our Lady of the Eurozone Hospital: After a sudden
worsening in her condition, the Irish Patient, formerly known as the Irish
Republic, has been moved into intensive care and put on artificial ventilation.
While a hospital spokesman, Jean-Claude Trichet, tried to sound upbeat, there is
no prospect that the Patient will recover.
It will be remembered that, after a lengthy period of poverty following her
acrimonious divorce from her English partner, in the 1990s Ireland succeeded in
turning her life around, educating herself, and holding down a steady job.
Although her increasingly riotous lifestyle over the last decade had raised some
concerns, the Irish Patient’s fate was sealed by a botched emergency
intervention on September 29th, 2008 followed by repeated misdiagnoses of the
ensuing complications.
With the Irish Patient now clinically dead, her grieving European relatives face
the melancholy task of deciding when to remove her from life support, and how to
deal with the extraordinary debts she ran up in the last months of her life . .
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