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Updated 5.45pm
AS YOU MAY have noticed, it’s still a bit snowy out there.
Delicate little flakes have been falling from the sky since early this morning in many places, leaving thick blankets of the white stuff in places like Monaghan, Cavan and Donegal.
You lot have been sending us a great selection of snow pictures from around the country since sunrise. The star performer this morning was reader Liam Kenny from Ballyjamesduff in Cavan, who captured the picture below with his Phantom Quadcopter, mounted with a GoPro camera.
Just to give an idea how much snow is falling in the Breffni County, Liam also sent these in, first thing…
In the running for best snow snap, we have a late contender in reader Kevin Crosby, who sent us this adorable picture of his little ones sitting on an impressive snow bear in Cavan:
Also in Cavan, 1-year-old Hannah was content to just sit in the snow and take it all in.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a snow day without some impressive snowmen. We like this guy, who’s so cool that he has to wear shades:
This lad gets an entire corner of the house to himself:
And these snow snaps were almost too cute for us to handle. Look at their little faces and their cute little dog:
This might be the best snowman we’ve ever seen and he was made by Milly and Maddie Smith with their mammy Sarah Norton in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan:
It makes us want to build a snowman…
Donal McAdam sent in these from Carrickatee in Co Monaghan, where there were drifts of up to 9 inches in some areas, he said.
By the looks of these goalposts, he may not be too far off.
It’s up to this fellow’s knees…
And this little mite was nearly swallowed up by it:
Meanwhile, slightly further north…
Elsewhere, as you might expect, the snow seemed to be sticking on higher ground, but those of us down the valleys are getting only a light dusting.
In the Kingdom, finally, they were feeling a bit left out today…
Have you got any good snaps of the snow? Send them to tips@thejournal.ie and they might make it in here…
- Additional reporting by Michelle Hennessy and Christine Bohan
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The UK can get away with it as it is a big, rich country in the EU and is outside the euro zone.
Ireland’s best hope of holding on to the patent system is that bigger members such as the Dutch and the Belgians stand their ground against the Germans.
Another point, of course, is why does Ireland have to have a 12.5% patent box rate when the UK has a 10% box, while the Dutch have a 5% tax rate? Bit of a no-brainer for multi-nationals in where to set up.
Also, the UK has 20 universities in the world ranking top 100. Ours are sliding out the window., with only Trinity in the top 100 and only the UCD in the all-important 200.
But both are dropping down the table due to spending cuts.
It means Ireland will have to import the brightest and best – and yet more Irish emigration.
Where’s the man with the plan?
It’s to remind others of their own corporate tax evasion schemes and gives us something to trade away if needs be.
Maybe all EU countries will get rid of them in a few years but at least then they can’t ask us to change something else in return.
So the only original, innovative idea in the entire budget was copied and is possibly illegal, and most likely less effective than the countries it was copied from…
Holland does it as well. If it was just a small player like ourselves it would be illegal.
Illegality in the EU is always determined by country size.
All mention of Germany trade deficits being dropped after a days discussion in the EU Parl.
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