The softer side of the Irish Air Corps

[Just a spotter]

From RTÉ, 15th Sept, 2010.

One of those warm fuzzy feel good stories.

Where medical procedures can't be carried out in Ireland, or where there is a long waiting list, the Air Corps are used to transport patients to the UK for treatment.

The family of this little boy return with him to say thanks to the flight crew.

RTÉ.ie Media Player: Six One News 15 September 2010 (http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0915/6news_av.html?2819624,null,230)

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JAS

[Just a spotter]

Typical medical tourism. Come here to sponge off of the NHS and deny a British Citizen the treatment they need. Don't worry that's why we pay our taxes. Still a nice fuzzy story though.

Don't fret RA, all the treatments are agreed in advance and are paid for in full by the Irish tax payer under the 'National Treatment Purchase Fund', so none of HM's tax payers, fit or ailing, were discommoded in the process.

Stay fuzzy.

JAS

[Daysleeper]

Do the Irish air corps have a "harder" side, let's face it they are hardly going to appear in Janes "the worlds top thirty most powerful airforces":E

[SVK]

Daysleeper

After the SDSR I seriously doubt the RAF will be in Jane's list either!

[rab-k]

Question; Whilst both tasked with defending island nations, which, the RAF or IAC, currently has an MPA capability? (A Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency Cessna 406 doesn't count BTW). Answers on a postcard please to Janes.

[Agaricus bisporus]

Well, I expect they were issued with a "Verbal exemption" from the IAA to cover whatever they wanted to do...

So it's all kosher then.