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SINN FÉIN’S MARTIN McGuinness had an unfortunate slip of the tongue while speaking in the Northern Assembly earlier today.
Answering a question on efforts to combat sectarianism in football, the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland mixed up the IRA – an organisation he has been long linked to – and the Irish Football Association (IFA).
The slip provoked laughter in the chamber with McGuinness laughing himself as he reiterated “the point that they have gone away, you know”.
The incident even led to McGuinness himself joking about it on his Facebook page, posting a link to the clip with a ‘Whoops!’ and tweeting: “There’s many a slip twixt tongue and lip !!”
Watch:
YouTube: Hugh O’Connell
Hat tip: BBC News
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I stopped reading at “85% of jobs available in 2030 haven’t been invented yet”. There’s slightly more than 8 years left in that prediction and I doubt if it’s anywhere near true. The prediction itself is 5 years old so we should be close to 40% new jobs never before heard of. (And probably that’s 100% in the private sector because government hasn’t changed much since the 19C.)
Maybe covid slowed it down.
My prediction for 2030 – there will be construction workers, shop workers, plumbers, electricians, drivers, nurses, port workers, chefs, waitress, government workers, accountants, real estate agents, accounts and office workers in general (most of whom will be doing what they do now). I’m sure there will be some new jobs, too
The tech industry is full of hype.
@john smith iv: Totally agree. F$(k coding. Science and nature all the way.
@john smith iv: naw, they might change the names but they’ve already been invented ,, people are getting more niche that’s all. We are still going to need plumbers electricians etc.. still need farmers , doctors the world has always moved on.. even without us on it..
Stick to farming. Energy crises are guan be common.
We also need artists jewellery makers, cabinet makers, singers, songwriters, writers, poets, philosophers, naturalists, palaeontologists, dreamers, inventors, sculptors, architects, blacksmiths, farriers.
It’s a bad idea to focus on STEM as if those subjects were an end in themselves.
@Nick Caffrey: While I wholeheartedly agree we need people in all of those roles, the reality is that digital skills are hugely beneficial or maybe even required for most of them going forward.
Many design and craft roles can use digital skills to support or improve their business.
The ability to programme in a language like Python opens vast new landscapes of expression to artists, jewelers and architects.
The best explorations of the limits of digital tools like CAD, CNC machines and 3D printers that I’ve seen are by artists and craftspeople thinking outside the box.
In fact there are ongoing projects in Ireland looking opening opportunities at this area (Craft 4.0 and iAtelier)
Digital skills are not just STEM, they can be part of STEAM with arts in the mix.
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