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Oh fliuch: The weather outlook is not good for the weekend

Rain rain rain rain rain rain and a bit of wind too.

WITH THE BODY and Soul festival in Westmeath and Westlife playing farewell concerts in Dublin this weekend make sure you bring your umbrella because it’s going to be a wet one.

There will be scattered showers across the country today but it will be mainly dry overnight and become less windy, according to Met Éireann.

Tomorrow will be cloudy with outbreaks of rain becoming more persistent as the day goes on. Sunday will be a bright and fresh day but there will be some heavy showers especially over the north of the country.

The morning will be quite breezy but winds will ease throughout the day and temperatures will reach as hugh as 18 degrees celsius in some parts of the country.

For those heading to the Body and Soul Festival at Ballinlough Castle in Westmeath here is how the weather is looking for the weekend and there is a fair bit of rain involved:

Read: It’s raining, so here are 6 things to cheer you up

Read: Line-up for Body & Soul festival revealed

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    Mute Mikhail Valtazar
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    Jan 17th 2017, 2:55 PM

    There is something truly unnerving about these gatherings of elites.

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    Mute Gus Sheridan
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:36 PM

    Noonan needs to be put out to grass, old fart with no fresh ideas

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    Mute Dave Doyle
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:56 PM

    @Gus Sheridan: The most dangerous in Ireland. Despises ordinary people and has to the power to make them pay for it.

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    Mute Thevigilantone
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    Jan 17th 2017, 3:05 PM

    Has anyone ever wondered why they showcase Davos and not the bilderberg meetings?

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    Mute Benjy Dempsey
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:27 PM

    They’ll be patting themselves on the back for this remarkable advance of the capitalist class at the expense of the majority working class.

    “Eight men hold as much wealth as half the planet combined”
    http://www.thejournal.ie/wealth-oxfam-3188533-Jan2017/

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    Mute Ó Connmhaigh
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:32 PM

    Kenny looks like he was telling a story at the World Angling Championship.
    I wouldn’t be surprised.

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    Mute Dave Doyle
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:54 PM

    @Ó Connmhaigh: Telling what he got while dressed as a dame.

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    Mute Tony Skillington
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    Jan 17th 2017, 8:21 PM

    Just back after nearly a month off and they’re away to Davos to act like the big important players on the world stage they can only begin to wish they were…Davos can have and keep Kenny

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jan 17th 2017, 10:57 PM

    @Thevigilantone: Why would they if the same Goldman Sach ones goes to both of them?

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    Mute Jay Finn
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    Jan 17th 2017, 3:03 PM

    The arrogance of these lads and lassies. Rich people gathering to discuss the worlds problems and issues as if they were elected to power to make decisions on our behalf.

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    Mute Christopher Gardiner
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:51 PM

    @Jay Finn: Thats just it. EU suits are NOT elected.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jan 17th 2017, 11:00 PM

    @Jay Finn: It be an orgy there tonight…

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    Mute Gerry Ryan deG
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    Jan 17th 2017, 3:16 PM

    About time they moved to Dublin, the wild west of financial shaenanigans

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    Mute Smidgen Dublin
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    Jan 17th 2017, 2:56 PM

    Davos/WEF is a massively expensive waste of time. I’ve never seen or read any effective, successful initiative they’ve funded, pioneered or implemented. Irish govt has to pay ten of thousands to be a member.

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    Mute Ursus Major
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    Jan 17th 2017, 3:11 PM

    @Smidgen Dublin:

    You will never see or read any initiative of Davos/WEF unless you are a member. Its all under the counter stuff. The little people suffer the consequences.

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    Mute classic
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    Jan 17th 2017, 3:49 PM

    It’s the elites world, we’re all just worker ants

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jan 17th 2017, 10:58 PM

    @classic: When will the US join the EU then???

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    Mute Mercurial One
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:29 PM

    Sure why wouldn’t Kenny and Noonan be there, presiding over a near bankrupt country and still refusing to claim tax due from one of the richest corporations in the world. Just goes to show who’s side these boys are on.

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    Mute Daisy Chai NSaw
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    Jan 17th 2017, 4:39 PM

    The One Percenter’s will be giving Noonan an update of NAMA policy and what bits they want.

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    Mute Declan Tooher
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    Jan 17th 2017, 4:04 PM

    World business leaders running their latest money making ideas by the school teacher from mayo for his assessment. That or they are telling him what they want him to do.

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    Mute Christopher Gardiner
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:53 PM

    @Declan Tooher: Exactly. Went to train as a school teacher and ends up leading a country. Wasn’t it a great B. ed course he did. Only in sad Ireland.

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    Mute Adrian
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    Jan 17th 2017, 4:51 PM

    Shouldn’t these donkeys kenny and noonan be back in their own country working hard in planning the Irish strategy for the hard brexit.

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    Mute Derek Lyster
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:08 PM

    Yes they should be back here sorting out our problems but they needed someone out there to poke fun at so these pair of clowns went

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    Mute Adrian
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:30 PM

    In fairness, they’d be of little use back here.
    They already sold all the property they could to the vulture funds and they can’t do much more with the corporation tax to compete with Britain for business, options are limited there, so what else can they do?
    Bit embarassing that Britain could take business off of a tax haven though.

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    Mute Alex Falcone
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    Jan 17th 2017, 2:58 PM

    Rob’s a neighbour of mine, very nice guy, extremely hard working. I wish him well at the Forum.

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    Mute Brendan Mason
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    Jan 17th 2017, 8:04 PM

    These people have two problems
    1. We don’t have enough
    2. We want more.

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    Mute Kerry Blake
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    Jan 17th 2017, 6:59 PM

    Never forget 1% own 50% of the global wealth. Most of them will be gathered in Davos. Talking about “‘Responsive and Responsible Leadership’” They mostly will be un-elected people discussing that. I see Noonan will be attending will he be standing at the airport to greet the great and the good?

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    Mute Patrick Mac
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    Jan 17th 2017, 6:24 PM

    gender balance and climate change – two non-issues if ever there were.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jan 17th 2017, 10:17 PM
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    Mute Brendan Mason
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    Jan 17th 2017, 7:40 PM

    Some amount of bull $#it been spoken in a confined space. You be a fair man to endure 5 minutes of it. This is an ostintation of wealth.
    Can you get me a large Courvoisier XO brandy served in a Waterford Crystal Glass on a Silver Tray.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jan 17th 2017, 10:13 PM

    So a place where the bigger the brown envelope you are willing to hand over then the further up the tree you can go to meet the one you want to bribe?

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jan 17th 2017, 10:28 PM

    Like in a lap dancing club that is really a brothel???

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    Mute Drew TheChinaman :)
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    Jan 17th 2017, 5:32 PM

    How pathetic must your life be if your jealous and bitter that people are at a work conference… and how paranoid and unstable to think they’re controlling your lives or plotting world domination.

    It’s the same as any other conference, wearing name tags, making small talk, listening to self congratulating or promoting speeches, pretending to remember people you met there last year.

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    Mute Dave Doyle
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    Jan 17th 2017, 6:01 PM

    @Drew TheChinaman :): The 1% didn’t get to be the 1% without a nod and a wink from their political servants.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jan 17th 2017, 10:15 PM

    @Drew TheChinaman :): Yes it is all funs and laughs?
    https://www.rt.com/op-edge/373943-davos-elite-play-acting-refugees/

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    Mute Mike Holmes
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    Jan 19th 2017, 9:39 AM

    Cultural levelling and its sinister twin cultural ecletism at work again.World citizen? Its official they have finally lost the plot.Not surprising to see the underbelly of the Irish politico in attendance.

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    Mute Bosco Hanley
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    Jan 17th 2017, 7:05 PM

    Kenny and Noonan a bunch of asses, they havent a clue, once there pockets are lined. Were going back to way we were into a bubble and that ass Kenny cant see it

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