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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, The Journal brings you five of the biggest stories of the day.
1. # WAGATHA CHRISTIE: Rebekah Vardy lost her High Court libel battle with Coleen Rooney.
2. #CLIMATE CHANGE: Emissions targets set by the government are ‘problematic’, the country’s climate watchdog has said.
3. #INFLATION: Prices in Ireland are 9.6% higher than this time last year.
4. #UKRAINE: Kyiv has denied Russian claims that it shelled a building holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in a rebel-held territory.
5. #HE’S BACK: Former US president Donald Trump is set to return to Ireland next month for a golfing trip in Doonbeg.
As I have said before.
It is not ultimately a food crisis but an overpopulation issue in a region of our planet which cannott sustain such a large amount of people.
Birthcontrol and education are crucial in resolving this.
U hit the nail on the head. This is not like the Irish famine . Ireland has always being able to grow enough food. It’s having too many children in desert areas
This is not just a contraception issue, its also a cultural issue.
I work in maternity services and we have many African women having 12 or 13 children. These women and their husbands do not work and are a massive drain on this country.
You cannot expect people who are starving to go look for condoms when what they actually want is a bigger family as its ‘part of their culture’ to have massive families. It will take much more and years of education.
In work 2 weeks ago, I dealt with 2 African ladies, one pregnant with her 13th child and another pregnant with her 11th. 2 African women having the same number of children as 11-12 Irish women is not going to help Ireland.
I am only seeing this thread now, sorry…!
I interviewed Sorcha Nic Mhathúna Oxfam’s Communications Consultant on the crisis on Raidió na Life last month. I will be interviewing her again for an update. The interview below is in Irish but I plan to cover it as Béarla also next week.
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