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THE RAIN IS going to be heavy and widespread this evening, leading to thundery downpours and spot flooding in places.
A Status Yellow rainfall warning issued by Met Éireann took effect at 6pm tonight for 12 counties – all of Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Longford, Louth, Westmeath and Meath.
Similarly a Yellow rain warning issued by the UK Met Office is in effect for Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Tyrone and Derry.
Met Éireann said northern areas will bear the brunt of the rain tonight, with drier weather following from the south-west.
In Ulster, temperatures will reach as low as 3 to 7 degrees but it’ll be milder elsewhere and range between 7 and 10 degrees.
Tomorrow morning will be dry in most areas with some bright or sunny spells.
Rain will develop in the south-west in the afternoon and spread north-eastwards throughout the evening. Highest temperatures will range between 7 and 11 degrees.
Looking further ahead, Met Éireann forecast that it will be unsettled with spells of rain in the coming days.
It’ll be generally mild at first, but becoming cold again at the weekend, it added.
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Fair play & Good luck to her. Created 80k jobs out of nothing is a credit to anyone.
Unlike our shower who created nothing out of 70bn.
Created herself $8 billion out of 80k people’s work, more like.
That’s how business works
yeah – how dare she copy every other employee / employer relationship that ever existed.
Baz we’re talking about China, stories like this are not the American dream of rags to riches, in communist China they are the result of the ubiquitous corruption.
An article in the Sunday Times in 2011 caused uproar on sites like Mumsnet. The basic jist of the article was that the women who had succeeded did it by sheer determination and didn’t go around whining about glass ceilings, gender quotas and childcare. Their children by and large were cared for by their grandparents and one mother only saw her children only every 2 weeks. Most of them worked 10 hours a day 6-7 days a week. One of them was quoted as wondering why western women wanted everything. They wanted a well paid high end job and children at the same time with someone else to pay or subsidise the childcare. The women went on to say that in her view you either had a job or a family but you couldn’t have both.
Needless to saw it made for very interesting reading on social media over the next few days.
But men can have both career and kids? K.
That’s not my point Joanna and BTW a lot of men would love to spend more time with their children but can’t due to work pressures. Shift work, overnights and long hours on the road mean that they can’t spend more than a few hours a week with their children so it’s not all rosy for men either.
Well quit whining and let women work so you can raise kids. Heehee. ;)
Nice touch
Fairly play to her becoming an expert im maths and computer programming. Chinese people are really good at that stuff
I love the ridicule of china at the end. You should look at where china sits on the ranking of income inequality when compared to other countries. Ireland is 46th, China is 67th and the US is 96th (according to the world banks figures).
Communism in its purest form.
Interesting that….. problem is China is not communist. At some stage there could be revolution western style. The richer they get the more freedoms they will want.
Fair play to her she deserves it
The richer they get the happier they are with the government. A big crash in China would be much more dangerous than increasing wealth.
Charles, somebody might want to tell the
Communist Party of China
That.
They tried that in 89
Stopped reading at chinese. I dont care for any asian news
Umad, you really are mad
Hard to beat dim sum with a cuppa green tea.
MAO…..MAO…..
Chinese cat?
DIDDY MAO….
That’s like commenting schnell schnell on a story about a French woman.
Communist you say?
Just goes to prove despite its flaws capitalism is the best option
Give her Irish citizenship!
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