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The Daily PollTHE FAMED GRAND stretch in the evenings will come back again from tonight, as daylight savings came into effect last night.
The clocks may have gone forward but Fine Gael MEP Deirdre Clune thinks the bi-annual practice of changing the time is a “backwards step”.
Having petitioned the EU on the matter, the European Commission has told Clune that it is currently investigating if it should be scrapped.
The MEP argued having brighter evenings in winter would lead to better outcomes for road safety, reduce energy consumption by having the lights on less and even encourage children to get out and exercise more.
“The very least we should do is have an informed debate on whether it is a good idea,” she said.
So, what do you think? Should we scrap putting the clocks back and forward every year?
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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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