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ST PATRICK’S DAY sees parades of every shape and size in towns and villages around Ireland.
From marching bands to birds on bikes, there was plenty of variety in the floats to be seen.
Here are some of the highlights
Guess who showed up @newschambers pic.twitter.com/qLijl6xyKg
— Rush Tourism (@RushTourism) March 17, 2023
The main attraction is lining up🚜🇮🇪☘️ pic.twitter.com/HxZPUHLysu
— Rush Tourism (@RushTourism) March 17, 2023
Great to have members of Óglaigh na hÉireann lead the Rush #StPatricksDay2023 parade again this year with the St. Maurs Pipe Band☘️🇮🇪☘️ pic.twitter.com/7MOabQFNhA
— Niall Gosson- NGosson Agri (@NGosson) March 17, 2023
The pulse of a people….
— Seán Mac an tSíthigh (@Buailtin) March 17, 2023
Ireland’s earliest St Patrick’s Day parade has taken place in Dingle (6am). A tradition dating back to the Land War of 1880s when the British authorities tried to prevent parades, banning gatherings “between sunrise and sunset.” pic.twitter.com/g8kdOl3X59
Now that's what I call a Green Party! pic.twitter.com/HlHZvIn90a
— Peadar Ó Fionnáin (@PeadarDingle) March 17, 2023
Dingle Fife & Drum lead the way for the early morning St. Patrick's Day parade in Dingle. Tosnú maith don lá. Beannachtaí Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh go léir ó nDaingean Uí Chúis i gCorca Dhuibhne. Bain súp as! pic.twitter.com/5cVNqVT9c1
— Breandán Fitzgerald (@breandanfitz) March 17, 2023
What a wonderful spectacle. The Ukrainian community in #Limerick, displaced by the war, say thanks with a huge float in this year's #StPatricksDay parade. pic.twitter.com/FXwjgFbNzE
— Nick Rabbitts (@Nick468official) March 17, 2023
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It’s only a matter of time. driving accounts for 30% of male employment worldwide. When vans trucks light rail taxis are driverless there will be an unemployment disaster.
exactly Patrick, rise of the machines technology is not always a good thing.
I don’t think I’d be ready to trust this technology anyway.
Automation has been killing jobs for centuries and will continue to do so for millennia.
As always people will have to adapt and adjust careers accordingly.
Can’t hold back progress.
Do you have a source for that, Patrick?
Those guys can work at something else. This is a great thing. Can’t wait for driverless cars.
Taxi drivers, van drivers, lorry drivers, bus drivers all looking at this and feeling a bit uneasy I’d imagine… on the plus side if it can take me home from the pub on a Friday night it won’t be the worst thing in the world
I look at advancements in technology in my sector and feel the same uneasiness. Can either sit back and do nothing, or look to try and learn new skills.
Who’s going to clean the puke off the seat before you get in.. Or who will wake up the drunk passenger in the back seat.. Self drive taxis may work well in some places but will not work well at 4am on a Saturday night in Dublin..
I would imagine there will be multiple internal cameras. Plus payment will be by card only. If camera catches a passenger damaging the car i.e. Puking…charge to card straight away.
Problem is technology/AI is advancing so quickly it is now replacing humans rather yhan just impeovibg the work place. Imagine the fin hackers will have with automated vehicles!??
Cheer up, planes still have pilots.
By the time the driver realizes that an accident is imminent it is generally too late to grab control. Safe driving requires forward planning and anticipation. You cannot be plunged into an emergency manual override position moments from disaster and expect to avoid it.
There’s many reported cases by Teslas stopping accidents before the driver even realised one was happening. Loads on dash cam vids and accounts on motoring forums. The tech is already saving lives. Given the number of road deaths here and around the world we’d be mad not to pursue this.
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