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VOTING IN THE children’s referendum will begin on a number of islands off the coast of Ireland today with over 2,000 people eligible to cast their ballots.
Islanders living off the coasts of Donegal, Mayo and Galway will be voting today as is traditionally the case in order to avoid the possibility of bad weather that could prevent ballot boxes from being brought to count centres on time.
Over 750 residents on the islands of Arranmore, Gola, Inishboffin, Inishfree, and Tory will be voting in the Donegal south west constituency.
While over 1,100 people will be eligible to vote on the Aran Islands off the Galway coast.
Around 200 people will be entitled to vote on Clare Island, Inishbiggle and Inishturk off the coast of Mayo.
Voting gets under way this morning with ballot boxes returning to the mainland at 7pm.
The rest of the country will vote this Saturday with polls opening at 9am and closing at 10pm.
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So Dublin city which has at least twice the population of Cork has more births . Jesbus what a scoop !!!!!!!!!!!
Only just, by about 20%. Probably due to CUMH serving a much bigger area than Cork alone
I am sure the CSO use the parents address rather than the hospital address when counting births by county.
They’re using the individual county/city council local authority areas, not regions.
Pops:
Dublin City : 527,612
(Dublin all local authorities: 1,273,069)
Cork County: 399,802
(Cork City and County : 519,032)
this rubbish is not news
All we want to know are the birth rates and are they rising and falling and the reasons why. The article was full of padding and doesn’t quite tell the reader what they want.
Also, Dublin city probably doesn’t include, Fingal and Dun Laoghaire and those other county areas, but who knows.
I take that back, there is a graph with the rates.
Most idiotic headline ever.
At least you can comment on it unlike the Hickey ones?
Must be really a quiet news day?
It’s not actually.
But as usual the Journal locks down comments on the important stories.
Even when they’re happening outside this jurisdiction.
Pathetic editorial stance.
Realistic looking Irish family in the photo … Not
You man must be brushing his teeth with Weathershield to get them that white.
Tbf, have you seen the women in Cork?
I know it’s hard to get a girl into bed when she’s not strung out on heroin!
Sums fail Beachmaster.
If Dublin has more than double the population of Cork, and Cork is only 25% behind in births…. It seems the amount of procreation going on per head is a lot higher in Cork.
They are all stunners in Havanas at 3am after a few Captains and Coke and a Heino chaser
Old peoples homes are not brothels Beachmaster ;)
Battle of the babies. How do you chaps come up with this shit.
Just double the amount of skangers going around the place so!
HON DUBLIN BABIES
Can people stop saying hon?
Cork has a higher HIV problem than Dublin as well?
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