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THE DUE DATE for the second child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge has been announced as April 2015.
The news, confirmed by Kensington Palace, also states that the duchess was still suffering from hyperemisis gravidarum – but that her condition is “steadily improving”.
Hyperemesis gravidarum is a serious pregnancy complication that can see sufferers experience severe weight loss as well as frequent vomiting throughout the day.
Tomorrow the duchess is set to make her first public appearance since the announcement of her pregnancy last month. She will be greeting President of Singapore Tony Tan and his wife as they embark on a short visit to the United Kingdom.
She will also be attending the Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards ceremony at the Natural History Museum.
The couple’s first child Prince George was born in July last year.
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Tax slaves on the way to the jobs they hate so that they can just about afford to pay the mortgage they should never have been given and finance policy for the 181 car theyre stuck in while politicians with garda escorts in free top of the range beamers or helicopters dodge the peasants in traffic and bankers laugh all the way to their stolen bolt holes in monaco. Isnt modern ireland just wonderful
@jon-boy55: Deep, man…
@Fred Claus: that only applies if you hate your job. I’m not going to say I love my job because I don’t. I love my family. I do like my job though. The only problem with it is the Santry to Sandyford trip. The M50 kills it. And not only that, paying to use it is worse. I do have an option though. Leave earlier and go through the city centre but not have breakfast with my kids. It’s the sacrifice I’ve to make. To get back onto your point though. Give up your job and get one closer to home. Well like I said above, I like my job. Problem is, it is specialised in that there are only two companies that do my line of work and both companies a based in south county Dublin.
@jon-boy55:
You are more clueless than I thought you were. Did you ever consider some sort of adult education or night course to try and improve?
@jon-boy55: so true though.
As a wise man once said “never give out about traffic, you are traffic!”
Actually next time you’re in a jam try this song to de-stress! “We’ve got traffic da da da da da da, aww it’s manic manic da da da da da da, we’ve got a long way to goooooooooo, but we’re going way too slooooooooow” Sometimes I even beep the horn for the da da da parts. You’ll find other road users quite enjoy it and soon enough the whole motorway will join in! It’ll make time fly!
@Jeremiah not a whole lotta Craic:
@Jeremiah A Craic: A wise man also said “if the driving lane is empty, use it”!
An article which lacks substance fails to address any of the issues regarding the M50 i suppose a masters in equality from UCD and owning a car does however make one feel qualified to be humourous
@Eddie Nugent: it’s called being lighthearted Eddie. If you have more substance to add go ahead and write something yourself – there are no specific qualifications required – just write your thoughts down on paper and send it in. Sitting there complaining that others aren’t qualified to write what they write can be a great motivator to get up off your backside and do a better job
@Eddie Nugent: it’s called being lighthearted. If you have more substance to add go ahead and write something – there are no specific qualifications required. Just pick up a pen, write it and send it in. Believing you can do a better job than someone else can be the motivation needed to get up off your backside and stop complaining that others aren’t as qualified as you to give their opinions
@Eddie Nugent: Eddie shut your hole, how’s that for equality?
@Áine Carroll: seems you are easily triggered, light hearted or not such articles should be compared to singing in the shower. I stand by my original comments, I note Bortoll is a bit of an attack dog on your behalf against any criticism, you need to up your game as a writer or the little bearded man will be very busy. However I wish you well in the future and did not intend any personal offence to you
What do you expect when you concentrate half the country into one area. Can’t have your cake and eat it. Exact same with house prices in Dublin. Just going to need to spread economic development outside of Dublin region. Reap want you sow.
@6ljJQRRU: there are cities far far bigger than Dublin that have infrastructures that can cope with the volume.
@6ljJQRRU: another rural whinge ,how is the Apple plant going in Galway
@Seth Cheffetz: Better laid out ones?
@6ljJQRRU: James you’re talking utter rubbish. Ireland has a low population density. Dublin and the east coast also has a low population density. Dublin, in European and world terms, has barely the scale to be called a capital city. The modern world is based on scale not dispersion. Your proposed remedy, to scatter more industry around the country, was tried. It failed. It failed because modern industry thrives on scale. We don’t need to disperse Dublin. We need to build it up and plan better. We also need to build up some other cities in Ireland.
Ireland’s problem has always been a failure to plan properly. And this is rooted in the lie that you can live in splendid rural isolation and have it all. You can’t. Ireland needs to create scale and not live in la la land.
@Robert Harris: going to Denmark…
Problem here is pretty easily solved, STOP HAVING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY FLOOD INTO DUBLIN FOR 9AM!!! Businesses can easily allow entire teams of employees work from home…why they dont baffles me as people are actually statistically MORE productive working there….does every school in the land also really need to start at 9am too? Would it not be handier to run classes later in the day?
It would help if the Garda didn’t shut down any road for half the day to “investigate” when their is an accident.
And people have to pay tolls for the privilege of long delays on top of the misery of being delayed.
I was travelling South after a 12 hour night shift yesterday. 1hour 30mins from Leixlip to Sandyford & then about an hour to do the same trip the evening going into work.
It would bring a year to a glass eye !
Use public transport. It’s a shambles granted and sometimes there isn’t an option. But I’m always amazed in rare instances I drive how roads are clogged up along routes well serviced by rail, luas or bus. A lot of people don’t seem to be as bothered by traffic as the author. Would do my head in.
@Toon Army: It would be too much though to ask that rail/tram/bus infrastructure be built alongside new roads, dual carriageways etc. Cheaper building costs, and the service ready to go when needed. But no – this is Politicians Island. There has to be a skim off infrastructure for various ‘lads’
@Father Hody Commody:
I’ve been saying that for years, Dublin – Derry, Limerick – Cork motorways, put a railway line running alongside both motorways, an extra 10 metres width wouldn’t be that expensive given that they are building a motorway anyway
@sixmile: The Public Transport Policy from repeated governments has been ‘Buy a Car’.
Buy an automatic car to ease the pain
@Quentin Moriarty: I had an automatic for the weekend. Couldn’t deal with the constant gear change at low speeds. I kept it in semi auto to save my sanity, so I may as well have had a manual.
Most of those cars are at 20% occupancy, a few at 40%. Everyone has their reasons for travelling alone by car but a bit of planning by individuals with some state incentives could easily halve the amount of traffic.
I was stuck southbound yesterday on M50….left airport at 7 am…got to Dalkey at 9.20….seriously you couldnt make it up
Motorbikes ! Toll free on the M50. 260km for 16 euro of petrol. 80 euro per annum on motor tax.
@Ken Bramley: 88 euro tax agree only way to travel.€
Traffic on route to Northside was slow because of onlookers…stop peeking and focus on driving…
Eh….the picture isn’t even of the M50. It’s the N7. How hard can it have been to find a stock photo of the M50?
The problem is all the decent jobs are in Dublin so share the jobs around the country less people needing to go to Dublin less traffic and if anybody tell me they cannot force companies to go outside Dublin you can give them an added incentive but the political will has to be there.
@Donal Carey: “All the decent jobs are in Dublin”
Bollocks
@Justin Gillespie: why do you think it is over populated is it how you think people are going to Dublin to sleep in boxes
@Donal Carey: Because a lot of people in Dublin think Ireland ends at the red cow and have never even been beyond that.
@Ronan Sexton: I’ve been to paradise but I’ve never been to Meath
@Ronan Sexton: I don’t anything will change as I said you need political will and that does not seem to be there as for the guy that thinks Dublin is Paradise god bless him he must have lived a sheltered life .
They should take the example from the USA and Canada and have a lane in rush hour dedicated to people that share the car in 2 or more.
@Mattia Accinelli: and a country and western listeners only lane, and a pink socks only lane, it would be so good…
@Mattia Accinelli: stop making sence
Why not put up a screen between the North and South bound traffic along the entire M50. Seen it in other countries and it would stop a crash from blocking up both sides due to rubberknecking.
M50 “car park” becomes “Death Race” at later stages during the day.
Tis quite an adventure, tailgating, switching lanes, Audi’s to the left of me, Mercedes to the right!!
Ah, switch off cruise control and set to “ramming speed”, till the car in front gets out of your way.
We are the Gardai, “adjusting” breath tests or protecting VIPS…..suck it up eh!
“The whole of bloody Leinster was at a stands still” m50 the ring around Dublin city and obviously Leinster also.
@Paddy:
along with the “hundreds of thousands” of motorists stuck in the opposite lane
A student union magazine (if they still exist) wouldn’t publish this tripe. Where does the journal dig up these contributors? I hope they aren’t being paid for these ramblings.
@Ronan McKeon: Why not write your own Ronan? I can’t wait to read your hugely entertaining and intelligent stories….go on!
Motorbike. Never delays, with or without collisions etc. Low petrol consumption. Free tolls. No brainer. Love my bike☺
1) the sadists at the DCC do everything in their power to prevent highrise residential buildings -> people are forced to live outside Dublin.
2) the same DDC pr!cks have no problem whatsoever in allowing the building highrise office buildings in the city center -> chokes the city traffic even more, as people need to drive from outside of Dublin into the very city center.
3) to make things even worse, DCC also does its best to slow the traffic even more by introducing ridiculous speed limits and closing down anywhere from 33% to 66% of traffic current lanes. Less lanes + lower speed with ALWAYS equal to heavier traffic.
4) the drivers are also a great bunch who just enjoy jamming on the brakes for no good reason.
Dont like being stuck in traffic? How about you just stop kicking that brake pedal the second you see 5 drops of rain or an accident on the opposite side of the road?
Since DCC has done such a great job in slowing the traffic through the city, this causes a domino effect everywhere else.
The M50 is a pure joke of a motorway!
Indoor car pollution is worse than the air outside especially when the car in front has their engine running. Expect more respiratory conditions in the future. Society is mad, it’s about time we reconsider whether the current system is working against us rather than for our benefit.
Traffic at 6.30am too. This is madness! #NoThisIsIreland
Cars were never as comfortable, in car entertainment just brilliant…
Just relax and enjoy the journey.
@Finn Mc Cool: Aye, agree. Another idea is to join your local library and borrow loads of audio books. 1.5 hours stuck in a car listening to the appalling sh*te that passes for radio advertising these days would destroy your blood pressure. But a good audio book on the cd drive and the time can pass effortlessly.
When it was 4 lanes and had toll booths, the dubs cried
Now it’s 6 lanes and free flowing, the dubs cry
So we all know the dubs live to cry
@Bart: Except Dubs like me never go near the M50 because we actually live in the city. In my office the only people moaning about commuting and traffic are culchies.
Brilliant!!!
Not even a real picture of the M50 ffs
Another day normal morning on the da M50!
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#DUBLIN Crash on the M50 southbound at J6 Blanchardstown in the right lane. http://www.TheAA.ie/Newsroom
Oh oh spaghetti ooOH
Corks traffic is insane too but when did national media care about that.
Poor road and junction design lack of future proofing who ever designed the so-called “upgrade” to the #M50 should be sued for incompetence & possibly manslaughter due to the number of crashes! 30kph between motorways is dangerous and causes delays!
Author lacks irony shocker
Traffic management at the ESB (capacity) works … lights never go dim!
Traffic management works in Telecoms … calls and internet data always get through
Traffic management at air traffic control works ….
Why cant NRA and LAs learn from these engineers. Maybe outsource the job to the ESB
Maybe the culture needs changing .. “let them wait ’till we get the big relief job done” .. no effort to alleviate the problem …
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