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THE SMALL DOG who was handed in to staff at Malahide DART station before Christmas has a new home and a new name – Lady.
The dog, although wearing a collar and having the appearance of being well cared for, was never claimed.
A spokesperson for Irish Rail has told TheJournal.ie that unless someone claims her, Lady will now live full-time with the family of the Irish Rail employee who took care of her over the Christmas period.
“Tony and the entire family have gotten very attached to her since that first night,” the spokesperson said, before adding that they “are now going to keep her permanently.”
Tony from Malahide station, with his son Sean (11) and newly named ‘Lady’ (IrishRail)
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Contraception, abstention, no, condoms… can start to tell the people of the third world the advantages of these words? And back them up with positive actions?
We as a planet need to address resources and infant mortality as a priority or start turning off the TV every time we hear about famine or drought.
Surely the Free Market will be overjoyed with all these births. All the more workers to exploit, I mean employ to keep the capitalist wheel turning.
Sadly these children born in africa wont survive into their teens.
its worse than that dee lee most wont see their fifth birthday,thats why they have such large families,to try and at least have 2 or 3 children survive to continue on the blood line
If it has increased by 1bn in the last decade why would that rate slow down? Should it not be much higher than 2 – 4.5bn more people come 2100? Given that the growth is geometric…
Or is there some planned pandemic they haven’t told us about…
Like a lot of natural systems, population growth looks closer to a sigmoid function. After a period of high growth, the growth will reduce over time and possibly become negative as it has in the first world.
I remember a ridiculous graph in the geography book in school that showed exponential population growth continuing into the distant future and a population of tens of billions of people by 2050. I don’t know how that was allowed into a supposed fact-based school book.
There was an issue of national geographic a few months ago announcing the population had hit 7billion.
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