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IT WAS A week of a new year, new pastures (for one iconic footballer) and a new political party.
That, and more, it’s the week in quotes.
It will of course be hard. Slings and arrows are at the ready, pointed at us. We will proceed and will not be deflected from our goals.
Lucinda Creighton knows starting a new political party won’t be easy.
I don’t use bad language. I apologise if offence was taken.
Charlie Flanagan on whether he used a four-letter word about Sinn Féin.
What’s up next?? A sitcom on The Holocaust maybe with funny fat Nazis eating victims alive? Or how about a comedy about Ebola with black kids dying on screen and doctors telling funny jokes about them?
Fianna Fáil’s David McGuinness didn’t find news of a sitcom about The Famine that funny.
“This has been the toughest decision of my life, and one which both me and my family have agonised over for a good deal of time.”
We believe we can resume suspended senior-level talks and hold other talks on specific issues if South Korea sincerely has a position that it wants to improve North-South relations through a dialogue.
Kim Jong-Un gave a New Year’s Day speech, calling the Sony hack a “righteous deed”.
Never ever buy a puppy for Christmas…all you do is encourage puppy farms to breed ever more dogs.
Billy Gallagher of Athlone SPCA after puppies were abandoned on the road on Christmas Day.
The State pension is absolutely secure.
Joan Burton on a discussion paper that suggested cutting the payment.
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Still none the wiser.
@Gillian Weir Scully: give them time thinking like you would have us living in caves
@Gillian Weir Scully: the progression of neuron development in the brain from start to end, birth to death, the mechanisms of growth, and how they may vary in different parts of the brain helps not only to give us a better insight into how the brain functions but also in how certain neurodegenerative conditions, such as dementias, might be prevented or mitigated against.
It may take some 20 years or more for this new research to lead to proven and efficacious treatments but it has enormous potential
By better understanding the human brain, we better understand what it is to be human. The advanced human brain is our truly defining characteristic as a species.
The only difficulty, although for some it seems instinctive, is to switch off as much cognition as possible when commenting on the Journal.ie .
@Fiona deFreyne: this kind of research could eventually lead to a better understanding of motor neuron disease leading to some sort of cure
@Fiona deFreyne: you mean our capacity for cruelty, stupidity, destructiveness, cognitive dissonance, duplicity, narcissism, etc is our defining uniqueness as a species…People are tired of waiting for solutions and resolution for and of our “condition.” It’s not a biology experiment…
@Paul Jennings: I’d say you are into conspiracy theories with a comment like that.
@Fiona deFreyne: Thank you that actually explained it better for me and loved the comment at the end.
I had thought that DNA and genetics were the cause of most illness or perhaps reason is a better word which then caused the brain to react from the article it sounds like the brain is effecting and causing illness more than I thought.
@FlopFlipU: Not kind. I said I did not understand fully the article.
Brain dead. Sorry they destroyed the evidence with cremation. Oh dear.
@Paul Coughlan: oh very clever comment. Id say you are the one who is brain dead more likely
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