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NEED TO CATCH up? The Journal brings you a round-up of today’s news.
IRELAND
WORLD
#COUP: The UN Security Council is expected to hold an emergency closed-door session to address the crisis in Sudan after a military general ousted the government.
#CLIMATE: Countries’ latest climate plans will deliver just a tiny percentage of the emissions cuts needed to limit global heating to 1.5C, the United Nations said in a damning assessment ahead of the COP26 climate summit.
#EUROPOL: Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects involved in buying or selling illegal goods online in one of the largest-ever stings targeting the dark web.
#GUN SAFETY: The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the loaded weapon that killed a cinematographer had been sacked from a previous production for gun safety violations.
PARTING SHOT
What’s the Halloween version of the Grinch?
A survey of how people in the UK view trick or treating turned up some interesting results – like the high proportion of people who don’t answer the door to kids or pretend to not be at home, and the number of people who answer the door “but give them nothing”.
This YouGov poll indicates that the older you are, more likely you are to get Grinchier about Halloween.
Who dislikes trick or treating the most?
— YouGov (@YouGov) October 26, 2021
65+ yr olds: 46% don't answer
50-64 yr olds: 44%
25-49 yr olds: 36%
18-24 yr olds: 35%https://t.co/kuP5tqBgDD pic.twitter.com/G7TAeo9S3g
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I made this point the other day when we were talking about Irish Rail, how much longer are we going to have to subsidise these costly and inefficient state transport providers?
Has anyone travelled by Bus Eireann on a lengthy journey recently?
Its absolute torture.
I don’t use BE any more, 3 hours to Wexford town from Dublin is an absolute joke! Expensive, dirty, slow and the rudest drivers iv ever had the ‘pleasure’ of encountering!
Martian you should travel with Wexford bus company , free wifi on all their 4 star air-conditioned buses, and polite drivers bar 1 dude
I do now Peter. Cheaper and gets me there faster!
Time to deregulate and privatise transport.
Add health care and education to that list and we can form a coalition
You want to privatise the provision of education? Seriously?
Well yeah or decentralise it heavily letting parents and teachers desire the curriculum and exams.. No taxes on any incomes, simply a consumption tax
Peter, we’re majorly off topic but there are some massive flaws in your idea, IMO
For a start the whole of society is the ultimate consumer of education and also you need an over all consistency in levels and content to make allow employers to judge between the outputs.
If the journal want to bring up the topic of general privatisation re Merkel’s “suggestions” we could probably discuss further.
Well I’m a libertarian at heart, and yeah I’d like that !
Agreed, but those from ballygobackwards will certainly find themselves without public transport. Thats the difference between public owned and private, needs of people vs profit margins. I don’t think we can justify owning and running loss making transport companies, when the country is going down the pan.
Well school transport alone is subsidized for 180 million a year and no austerity imposed on bus eireann at all and they a upping prices as well as cutting routes and prices…..law onto themselves.
Change regulation for bigger advertising
As far as I can see the busman gets €500-600 a week. Most of the company losses are on the advertising side of the business. There should be more live timetable terminals to increase consumer satisfaction. Maybe introduce advertising under the live times!
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