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Updated 11.19pm
THE GOOD NEWS: It’s the weekend! The bad news: it’s going to rain so hard that Met Éireann has issued a weather warning.
Sorry.
The national meteorological service is warning about heavy rain on Saturday night and Sunday across Munster and Leinster, with coastal counties being hit the worst (Connacht and Ulster are set to escape the brunt of the drenching).
In a slightly unusual – and perhaps ominous – sentence, the yellow alert warning ends with the words “Details uncertain at present”.
Usually warning would have details about exactly how much rain is expected and whether there or not there is a risk of flooding.
This map shows at least two patterns of heavy rain off Ireland’s west coast as of this evening:
So maybe you’re better off staying in this weekend. Clean your house. Write that email to your parents. Watch that boxset you’ve heard so much about.
Or, if you have to go outside, at least make sure you’ve got a good brolly.
Originally published 5.31pm
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€813 for 27 days private health care, security and petrol costs,
What are we doing wrong?
Have a look at the average wage in Russia (even using their own figures) and you’ll have your answer…
Have to laugh at the journal posting Ad from McDonald’s in the middle of this article
@the dub:
My phone showed an ad for Visa. Still relevant!
Mine for klm airlines
Adblock. Fantastic app.
Mine showed an ad ” for all your hospital bombing needs”
Virgin Media
So measures would never happen in liberal Ireland…..instead some TD would go to visit!
@Paul:
Do you really think that, if you were in Russia and you were put on trial for a crime you didn’t commit, you’d be acquitted?! If you do then maybe you should read about what happened to anti-corruption campaigner Sergei Magnitsky.
Imagine the invoice he’d get in Ireland for 9 days in hospital with escorts etc
Sure a hospital here in Ireland would put him on a trolley and when the bill would go through to vhi it would include the cost of a single private room. They’d probably even include the cost of 3 meals a day.
Maggie would never have, or did go for it.
Damn right. Let’s see how long he remains on hunger strike. See where his principles really lie.
@Martin Flood: Really you don’t respect a prisoners right to appeal?
@Martin Flood:
You believe that a lawyer accused of attacking a cop got a fair trial in Russia?! Pull the other one!
@ciaran. Could be worse. They could have doctored evidence to brand him a child rapist!
@Anne Marie Devlin:
You’re not wrong.
Yeh they’re going to release him so he can get a job to pay them back
I thought we did that too. Oh sorry, it’s just the rest of society that we withhold essential medical care to until they can pay
@Anne Marie Devlin:
People who oppose the government in this country are not shot dead in areas where the CCTV just happens to malfunction or framed and beaten to death in prison.
I assume you’ve heard of Boris Nemtsov and Sergei Magnitsky.
@Anne Marie Delvin With all its faults still would prefer our health service and prison system to the Russian one….Mountjoy is preferable to Siberia….
@Ciarán Masterson: No Ciaran they just get their name smeared. Just ask Garda McCabe if you want.
@ciaran masterson. I have and I know the country maybe a bit too well. I suppose you’ve heard of Maurice McCabe? When a police whistle blower reports malpractice, state agencies colluded to stitch him up as a child rapist. I’m not saying that state abuse does not exist in Russia. It obviously does. I’m pointing out that we’re not far behind.
@john003. I’ve spent time in Siberia -it’s not that bad! But seriously, the Russian health system is not bad from the experiences I’ve had there. They really excel in diagnostics. School health program blows ours away. All kids get eye, dental and full medical checks every year.
And our ‘system’ currently withholds basic dental care, just to make sure that people become unemployable.
His partner Victoria who we wont name for fear of reprisals – yeah, how will they ever who his partner Victoria is… – just as well the ruskies dont read the journal…
I would have thought that Russian government agents would provide some relief for Mr Krekov from his pain by supplying him with a cup of hot, sweet tea (with a dash of polonium).
@ciaran masterson. Could you imagine the medical bills if they did.
So f in waht !!!
@Jamie Thornton: I’d reply to you but your just not worth it.
Ironic.
I think this is an autocorrect fail. I reckon he meant to say “(there’s) no ‘f’ in ‘what’” which is true…
U just did ha ha
Is it just me or is it just amazing how the journal flip flops on its opinion. Some days the for eg the Russians are good and then some days the Russians are bad. Some days loads of comments are deleted and some days they are not. It’s quite a quandary to be sure
Jenni .. I think it just depends on the mood they’re in on the day ..
Depends if the author has a mug of tea in front of them or not…
The Donald will follow
the only time TheJournal fails to say how much convictions the person has. if its over 70, then i have no sympathy for him
I genuinely don’t see what’s wrong with this should apply to all other medical expenses while in prison too
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