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THE WORLD HEALTH Organisation has confirmed that an elderly Chinese man has been infected with avian flu.
The 86-year-old man from Jiangsu on the eastern coast of China started to feel unwell while on a trip to Taiwan on 19 December.
He was then admitted to hospital on 24 December after being diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia and the life-threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome.
He currently remains in hospital and is breathing with the help of a breathing tube.
The other members of the tour, except the man’s two daughters, have returned from the trip but none have shown any symptoms of infection.
The WHO say that so far there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission.
The bird flu strain identified in the ill man is the H7N9 strain with the WHO not as yet advising any special screening at points of entry as a result of the infection.
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I save a few hundred every year by changing suppliers to whoever is offering the best introductory offer at that time. Five minutes is all it takes.
I do the same with broadband, phone and insurance. Now that I think of it, it’s nearly August. This year’s contract is almost up.
@Benny McHale: I always wondered if this was worth the hassle, but if it only takes a few minutes I might give it a go
@ciaranactually: For electricity you’ll need your MPRM number. If you can’t find it contact your current supplier and they’ll give it to you.
@ciaranactually: it’s honestly so worth the few minutes. We saved 4 months on our home insurance just for taking a few minutes to switch
@ciaranactually: it’s honestly so worth the few minutes. We saved 4 months on our home insurance just for taking a few minutes to switch
@ciaranactually: use Bonkers website…stores your details… does calculations for you…switch in minutes (once you are out of contract)
@Benny McHale: I just moved from Bord Gois to SSE that guarantees 10% discount on old bill for 12 months plus €200 credit.
@Benny McHale: can u do this mid-contract or do u have to wait until d contract is up?
@Steve: Best way to choose a tariff is if your are a higher user in terms of units focus on a supplier with a lower unit rate. If your are a low unit user focus on the standing charge price.
Always make sure to get your annual consumption figures in terms of units off of your provider and use those figures generating a quote nothing else or else your quote will not be accurate.
So much people get caught out by not using annual consumption figures!
@ciaranactually: Its quite easy actually the new providers do most of the work. It really is worth it.:)
@ciaranactually: definitely well worth it.
@Benny McHale: i only switched to Bord Gáis last month as they where the cheapest. Now the increase will bring me back to the rate I was already on with Energia.
@Scorcher Bois Gris: You can change mid contract but you might be charged 50 euro or something. Check your T&C.
Will there be mandatory wage increases for the common workers to match inflation?
Greyhound waste also increasing their prices but you wouldn’t know it from their communications as they increase by stealth without informing customers.
@Noel_Random: Also they’re pay by weight is a scam. With a fixed minimum charge you get charged the full amount if you have 1kg in the bin or 20kg. Completely contrary to the original aim to encourage people reduce the amount they bin.
@Noel_Random: My refuse collector AES/Bord na Mona the exact same. Went online yesterday to pay for the year almost 7% hike with no fore-warning, emailed them to ask about the lack of communication, no response as yet
Not a surprise. Only the beginning. How long will it take people to wake up and understand what is really happening here. The level of ignorance in the population is staggering.
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: Inflation is here…..buy bitcoin
@Snacktoshi Nachomoto ∞/21M: Silver? Bitcoin? No, no, no lads, you gotta invest in chickens. They lay eggs to eat and sell, and you’ll never guess what the feckers are made of!
@inflation is coming… buy physical silver.: And they don’t even realise it…
@Snacktoshi Nachomoto ∞/21M: bitcoin isn’t a currency or a store of value. Probably be worth 0 eventually.
@Eugene Norman: lol, people who don’t understand bitcoin are hilarious
@Snacktoshi Nachomoto ∞/21M: they don’t get cryptos and they don’t comprehend that their wealth should not be stored in Euro
Somewhat unrelated but why does a broadband company get to charge full price for a very much reduced service to some of its customers – for example, €60 a month for 100mb and the customer is getting 80mb speeds on average, a few streets over another customer who is currently too far from the nearest cabinet is getting 5mb down but also paying €60 a month?
How is that justified by the consumer agencies?
(and yes the new cabinet has been “going in” for 2 years now and still no sign of it)
@Eddie O’Neill: try 3mb maximum, miles from the exchange on old copper lines, had to eventually switch to 4g which is not much better in the area but is half the price, its that or nothing
@Eddie O’Neill: this is a broad daylight scam and quite rightly needs to be addressed. Been going on for far too long.
Scammers the lot of them
So much for cold callers guaranteeing a fixed price for x amount of years
Bejasus aint it high enough already.. I pay 183 a month for Electric only. Only a detached house with 4 bedrooms for Gods sake
@Geoff Bateman: that’s a serious electric cost. I pay 4 bedroom house, 4 people on average €90 a month. You must have an electric cooker ?
@Jason Ebbs: dryer and/or immersion.
@Nigel Barlow: or teenagers!!
@Nigel Barlow: or teenagers!!
That’s 20% this year they’ve increased electricity and all the once little stealth taxes that go with it at this rare it will be cheaper to stay with a petrol car than a battery car on the future big enterprise is a gougers paradise
@Gerard Heery: who’s they?
Ye if you pay for 500mg and you average say 50 mg over the month you should pay 10% isn’t that fair Mr. Broadband supplier if you supply 500mg you get full payment
Then the government will come out and tell us that inflation is low.
Go solar, my highest bill this year was €114 for two months. Lowest was €45, next to no power bought so that’s the unavoidable tax charges and PSO.
Good grant available and soon will be getting paid for excess power sent to the grid.
@Barry Glynn: only if the grid accepts it. Wind farms on some occasions for instance have probs re connectivity to the grid
Ba$tards. Utter utter ba$tards
The grid has no problem accepting the energy I sending back for free.
It got over 200kw from me last month.
When I git the system in first my old meter would spin backwards, till the feckers replaced it with a digital meter.
Listen solar works in Ireland and when I get an EV I will be running it on self generated solar power.
Young daughter got a summer job washing up in pub only allowed 21 hours earned 140 e went to collect children’s allowance & deducted 140e oh
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