A chara, – On the television news recently, journalists were throwing the abbreviation ED around like confetti, as if it meant . . . well, as if it meant “emergency department”. A prior and more widely recognised meaning for ED is erectile dysfunction. I don’t suppose that was what the journalists meant. What’s wrong with ER (emergency room), or even the one that served us well for years, A&E (accident & emergency)? – Is mise,
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Co Bhaile Átha Cliath.