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EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day.
1. #CORONAVIRUS: 126 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Ireland last night, bringing the total number of cases to 683.
2. #THE GAMBLER: Country music legend Kenny Rogers has passed away at the age of 81
3. #ITALY: An Italian brewer based in the centre of Lombardy, which was the first area in Italy to go into a ‘Red Zone’ lockdown, has advised Irish people that coronavirus isn’t just ‘the flu for the elderly’ – adding that people in their 40s are being hospitalised.
4. #UNPROVEN: President Donald Trump and the US government’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci publicly sparred over whether a malaria drug would work to treat people with Covid-19.
5. #VISAS: Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan announced last night that immigration permissions due to expire between 20 March and 20 May will be automatically extended for two months.
6. #CLARA: A teenage pedestrian has died following a collision involving a jeep in Clara, Co Offaly last night.
7. #JOB CUTS: Celtic Media Group– which publishes titles such as the Meath Chronicle and the Anglo Celt – has said it will be temporarily cutting its workforce amid collapsing revenues due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
8. #FUNDRAISING: A theatre in Dublin has raised over €28k to help Irish artists who need financial help due to the coronavirus.
9. #TESTING POSITIVE: One of Ireland’s 683 patients confirmed to have the Covid-19 virus has described his experience of being diagnosed and his time in self-isolation with his partner, who has also tested positive.
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I was wondering what Amy Hubermann was thinking of it all. Thank God for The Journal.
@The Guru: Never mind that nobody Barbara S…FFS.
Went into spar for a cup of coffee, the sun was so strong there was people wearing sun glasses outside. When i came out 5mins later there was a hail shower. Mad stuff that coffee
Oh, that was good for a smile at the end of a working day!
April showers bring may flowers
@Alan Carthy: Hope your right Alan we’ve all the baskets done
@Alan au contraire. Whan that Aprille with his shoures swete / The droghte of Marche hath pierced to the root…and loads of my bedding plants look frost nipped.
Then it got sunny, then the hail returned, then rain, then the sun came back…don’t know what is next, cats and dogs?
@The Girl:
Years ago when roots were thatch, cats and dogs slept in them to keep warm. When it got too wet the cats and dogs would slip out, hence the saying ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’.
@Lily: Yes but where did the expression “It’s p155ing down out of the high heavens” originate.
We have a saying or nursery kind of song in German:
April, April der macht was er will. Mal Regen und mal Sonnenschein dann schneit es wieder zwischendrein, April, April, April, der macht was er will.
Translation lol
APRIL APRIL APRIL DOES WHAT IT LIKES. ONCE RAIN AND ONCE SUNSHINE THEN SNOW IN BETWEEN. APRIL APRIL APRIL DOES WHAT IT LIKES…
and finishes the sentence in sunshine lol
@Christine Klein: heil heil heil…ja ja ja
Lots if hail, thunder and lightning at the minute. Serious stuff
@niall: are you a bit scared Niall?
@Captain kirk: thunder and lightening, very very frightening!
@Rui Firmino: mid twenties here…..nice
@Gus Sheridan: mid forties here…. So a bit older than you.
@Paraic McDonagh: Early 40′s here.
Oops… Someone spilled their Crystal meth all over the road
Looks like Summer’s over. It’s all downhill from here
Only another eight weeks and the nights will be getting shorter.
Amy Huberman giving Flann O’Brien a run for his money there.
That Amy Huberman is a hoot.
How dare you be in Portugal!!
Thunder and lightning is no lark!
https://youtu.be/pd_kAMrB1Gs
April is the cruellest month. Eliot was right. Reckon it was too early to put out the sweetpea.
Ne’er cast a clout ’til May is out. Monkey’s not brass but fralsetto today.
Earth is fu*ked up.
@Paul Radburn: Snow in Turkey today and in Germany yesterday?
https://youtu.be/PIjNB_QYiws DUBLIN sleet today with a blue sky in backround
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