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There’s no doubt that we’re actually in a very real race to get the vaccines ahead of the potential increase in the spread of Delta, and particularly no doubt that we’re closing the gap every day with more and more vaccines being administered and I think the public should take good confidence and assurance in that, but a most likely scenario is that the pace and growth of the Delta variant will out match our supply of vaccines over the coming weeks.
HSE chief executive Paul Reid on the race against the Delta variant.
The cuckoo funds are not content with paying virtually no tax on their profits, they’re not content with the extraordinarily lucrative 25-year contracts and very secure investments, those investments have been described by some as government bonds on steroids. No, the State has to further sweeten the deal and exempt them from this stamp duty increase if it wants them to play ball.
Social Democrat’s co-leader Catherine Murphy TD on a government move to allow cuckoo funds to side-step 10% stamp duty if they lease back homes to the State for social housing.
We have millions of children living in conflict situations. We have so many people who are migrants around the world who live in desperately uncertain circumstances all the time. They don’t know where they’re going to be tomorrow, if they’re going to be deported, if they’re going to be accepted. There are so many different groups living in overcrowded slums around the world who live on $1 a day and they have to go to a street corner every morning and see if they can earn enough money by getting some work to feed their family that day – not next week but that day. That amount of stress, that is a huge burden for any human being to carry in those different circumstances.
Dr Mike Ryan of the World Health Organisation warned of a ‘tsunami’ of mental health issues is emerging.
The government is living on borrowed time.
Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald on the coalition’s poor performance in the Dublin Bay South by-election.
This is a crime against journalism and an attack on our values of democracy and rule of law. We will relentlessly continue to defend the freedom of the press.
European Union chief Charles Michel condemned the shooting of Dutch crime reporter Peter R de Vries.
We don’t know if there will be a variant that can beat the vaccines, we suspect that it will probably happen. So that’s why we’re saying it ain’t gone away, because new variants are coming all around.
WHO’s special envoy on Covid-19 David Nabarro urged caution as the United Kingdom announced an all-out reopening plan.
My choice of words commenting on a penalty incident were not thought out.
CEO of Basketball Ireland and former FAI chief executive Bernard O’Byrne apologised for a comment made on social media following England’s Euro 2020 win over Denmark.
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He didn’t see that coming
@logs byrne: but we all saw this coming!
@logs byrne: who says he didn’t.
@logs byrne: He tweeted the news of his death just after it happened RIP..
We haven’t heard the end of him.
@Fr Romeo sensini.: maybe he will make appearance on the next most haunted
@Fr Romeo sensini.:…or the start!
Seemed like a decent bloke but he was caught bluffing on Most Haunted.
@Alan McArdle: yeah top bloke exploiting and fleecing the grieving by pretending to talk to their lived ones from beyond the grave
@Alan McArdle: how was he decent?
He was a con man.
@As the fella says: just a con man
Great chance for him to come back and spill the beans about the other side.
He always made me laugh, even if that wasn’t his intention. Very young to die. RIP
Some horrible comments on here. I’m sure his loved ones don’t find it amusing. Rip x
@Beauty Emporium: I’m sure his loved ones won’t be reading this.
@páraicS: how do you know ? Isn’t it better to just show a bit of respect regardless ?
@Beauty Emporium: I’m sure they won’t be reading them
@Beauty Emporium: Why? Did he show any respect for his vulnerable clients when charging money for lies about them? He was a complete scammer and con man.
@páraicS: Why do you read the journal?
RIP
way way back in the early 1980s i was working as head chef in a restaurant in a small cheshire town near liverpool – the restaurant owner was asked to lease a room for a ‘spiritualist evening’ featuring ‘a well known local medium ‘ (derek acorah -before he was on tv etc) anyway on the evening he arrived at the venue and was shown up to the meeting room , we were asked by the owner to send up a pot of tea and some refreshments – the girl who took the tray up to him said ” the manager said to bring this up for you ” achora replied -”oh ,i wasn’t expecting anything like that ” – “well your not much of a clairvoyant then are you “she replied !
I predict we are all going to die one day
@Tony O Neill: only 93% certain though
@Tony O Neill: just one day?
Absolute spoofer who preyed upon the weak, vulnerable & gullible
@Liam Ó hAodha: alot of whom find alot of comfort in mediums
@Liam Ó hAodha: priests up and down the country will be doing that at mass tomorrow and tonight. At least Most Haunted carried the disclaimer in the small print that it was first and foremost, entertainment.
@miju irl: In my experience it only stops you seeing that if you’re departed one is gone forever there is a peace in nothingness. I don’t want a man who behaved as Jesus Moses etc caring for loved ones in the afterlife with their record and the trouble and deception they caused. Its time religious platitudes were silenced. The truth as raw as it is is best
@miju irl: no difference between this and the Catholic Church
@miju irl: yeah that’d be great if they weren’t changing people €200+ A pop just to be told garbage that people post on social media
@Forest Hump: any church, not just catholic
@Liam Ó hAodha: he learned it all from the muppets in the DAIL
He’s going from host to guest
@Justice Mickey: host to ghost
@Justice Mickey:
Host to ghost?
@Ixtrix Net:
No, a guest on Most Haunted lol.
he’s in for the real thing now
Not that haunted so
Sam didn’t give him a heads up
@Tom Guthrie: yes very strange that . Cos Sam was always interrupting him . Making Derek stop what he was saying to nod and say thank you Sam . Maybe Sam knew it was coming and sought employment with a different medium
Rest in Peace
Can’t wait to hear about it when he comes back. A while new season of shows right there. Get on it Netflix.
His wife is giving away all his clothes, he was a medium…..
@Robc: OFAH!
The Bean Sidhe got him
Con man
Most Haunted
RIP
@miju irl: but he won’t, will he?
He’s at peace with Sam now…. RIP
Great show man
“Mark loves Dick……Mary loves Dick”
He was streaming live on Facebook a few weeks back, getting a fair bit of grief and slagging.
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