Yes....I'm not complaining either. It is just weird that something that seems so available in the home country is like nowhere in the other. I've lived off and on in Latin America and prescriptions are needed for very few drugs. I purchased anti-biotics, etc for my family when we lived in Chile, and it was perfect. They also were about 1/10 of the price of US meds. They were sold by all of the main pharmaceutical companies. Squibb, Geiby, Glaxo-Smith-Kline etc. US consumers are gouged by the companies viz a viz the rest of the Americas so it seems.

I posted this up a long while back at the other place (which seems to be getting worse and worse - now, letters with fadas have become question marks, which I find very annoying).
http://www.citizensinformation.ie - where you can find out about all kinds of things in Ireland and you can click on the Gaeilge button to see how they say it in Irish.
Baile - Sláinte - Teidlíochtaí maidir le seirbhísí > Drugaí agus cógais ordaithe
They also give a link to the Irish Medicines Board - http://www.imb.ie - which you might find helpful, though it isn't in Irish.

I wonder where the clue is in your post about why it is not readily available here!

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And you might like to keep this in mind, there's an article in today's Irish Independent by Eilish O'Regan entitled - 'Customers pay three times as much for same medicine in different pharmacies' following a report from the National Comsumer Agency - www.nce.ie - They do have a name in Irish - Gníomhaireacht Náisiúnta Tomhaltóirí but that's the only Irish you'll see on their site - and they don't recognise the word Gaeilge either.

I've never heard of anybody doing that.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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I used to do that quite regularly. Saline solution helps as well. Sometimes I'd mix some of that up and then add a slug of H2O2 to it to juice it up.

Cad é go mbíonn tusa á úsáid?

Úsáídeann mé uisce le salann air, nó Listerine.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Saoirse: focus on my words sometimes "weird and extreme" . He's a different kind of bird. LIves in the city but comes up to the farm as he will only drink water from the farm well (never been tested) because he's afraid of chlorine in the city. I understand that but he does some other off the wall stuff. I love him all the same and listen cuz he's highly intelligent. Just has a touch of Asbergers so he does some kinda strange stuff and sometimes gives some advice that's a little out there.

And on top of everything else, the rules regarding what is dangerous and what isn't seem to change on a regular basis. And that cannot make it any easier for someone who struggles with extreme reactions to things.

I remember years ago an American friend couldn't believe that Codeine could be bought 'over the counter' in Ireland. It could only be bought in U.S. with a prescription as apparently it is highly addictive. There doesn't seem to be great consistency across countries about these things.

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It can? Yes, it is very addictive (it's a synthetic opiate), but it's also the best thing I know of to quiet a hacking cough. As your friend said, you have to have a prescription here, and there are also limitations in many states as to how often you can buy it.

A medication that used to be available over the counter here, and now is more closely regulated, is pseudoephedrine. You still don't need a prescription for it, but now, in order to buy it, you have to sign in at the pharmacist's window, and there are strict limitations on how much you can buy and how often (the reason isn't that it's dangerous to use, but that it can be used to make meth).

Redwolf