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ALL GOING TO plan, there’ll be a welcome moment in the future when you get a Covid vaccine jabbed into your arm.
And you’ll have an Irishman to thank: Francis Rynd, inventor of the hypodermic needle.
He performed the first procedure using one in 1844 at The Meath hospital in Dublin.
He was not the first to use a syringe, and others went on to refine the technology, but Rynd’s invention is credited with laying the groundwork for this.
But it’s not just the syringe. Ireland – with its diaspora doing some heavy lifting here – can lay claim to a number of other inventions.
Test your knowledge on them below.
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I’m sure he gets loads of pints in the dail bar
@Justin Tighe: These days I’d say he has to take a slurp under the duvet with all the curtain twitchers watching him
Only at golf functions
i wouldn’t give you fizzy water because of the bubbles to your head
Anti Alcohol.
@Peter Coen: and probably Uncle cigarettes too
Does Martin drink ???
@John Farrant: Pint of Milk.
A pint of milk? A man went into a pub, the barman asked the man what would he like to drink? The man says a pint of milk.The barman says Another pussycat.
two cows walk into a pub, the barman says “what are you having”
Like People don’t slip up
Helps raise 6 million .well feck sake .
O to have a pint without being forced to eat your dinner first like a child.
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