Is there an election due soon or something? (insert ironic smile here!) In years gone by September was a month for back to school stories, the junior cert results and booze ups, the All Ireland and the Combined Rules series. If we are really lucky there would be a bit of an ‘Indian’ summer. Towards […]
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Everywhere you go there are the ads with Paddy looking serious for O2 or Paul looking joyous for Allianz. (Am sure that sponsor is breathing a big sigh of relief that Paul qualified at the weekend.) The event is being hyped and today’s Irish Times says that the figures predicted for revenue intake were inflated. […]
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There was an interesting report on Sky News tonight examining the issue of low pay in the hotel sector. An undercover reporter was sent to work in the Jury’s Doyle Inn in Southampton where he was paid £1.80 per room cleaned and with 6 hours work per day was earning far less than the minimum […]
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Karen Coleman returned from her summer break to Newstalk 106 this weekend and today’s programme included a discussion on access to IVF for single women and lesbian couples. Earlier this week the British Fertility Service recommended access to IVF treatment under the NHS for single women and lesbian couples. The discussion included input of Dr. […]
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The Times reports on a shortage of lentils and dhal as India bans exports. It seems some bright spark decided to list dhal on the Indian stock exchange coupled with drought and thus creating a shortage of the pulses. I have not yet figured out how to put Youtube clips into a wordpress […]
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