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LAST MONTH THE Transport Minister completely prohibited the practice of texting while driving.
Legislation had already outlined that drivers couldn’t operate a phone but Leo Varadkar said the law was not 100 per cent clear on whether it applied to sending a text or searching the web while the phone was in a cradle.
Fine Gael TD Andrew Doyle asked Minister Varadkar if taxi drivers who received automatic route information updates on navigation systems through their phones were breaking the law.
He wanted the Minister to “clarify for taxi drivers who enter their destination to their satellite navigation software on their smartphones, whether the automatic data updates for route information received during their journey is prohibited as being data access while driving under the new legislation”.
The Transport Minister replied that the new regulations make it an offence to send or read a text message from a mobile phone while driving. He added:
“These regulations apply to mobile phones which are not being held, i.e. to hands-free devices. A text message in these regulations includes an SMS or MMS message, or an email.
The automatic data updates from satellite navigation software operates over the internet, therefore it is neither SMS- nor MMS-based.
“Email operates over the internet. As the Regulation specify email, which does operate over the internet, this implies that non-email communication received via the internet is not covered by the regulations.”
It should have an r in it for the correct Irish pronunciation? Chicargo
@Jason Walsh: No idea why but people love to put the R in there! I live in Michigan and many Irish people pronounce it Mitchigan! And Mary-Land (pron MARA-lund) , so many others. Then Irish people complain how Americans pronounce Ireland, Galway etc!
@Susan Cody: I’ve never known any Irish person to pronounce these places in the way that you say.
@Dave Desmond: inhave never known an Irish person that didn’t have the r in there
@Jason Walsh: never heard any one say with an r .
@Dave Desmond: I’m one
@Jason Walsh: when my new roommate was writing home about me and asked, “how many ‘r’s are there in Chicago?” I knew I was a long way from home.
Home of Richard Kimble too
@Ronan Mc:
“I didn’t kill my wife”
” I don’t care”
Great movie.
Can I get there without my passport?
@Glen: Yes, easy cross from Canada. This year alone 30.000 illegals came from Canada to reach NYC, the highest ever number.
@Alex: well every so called war victim can get in here with no pass portbit I can’t see how you’d get through Canadian security into USA with no passport
@Glen: yes. Yes you can. Get in your car and crank the heater until you get a good sweat on while listening to a cubs game on WBBM over radio.garden, close your eyes and repeat the mantra, “five eight eight two three hundred, Empire” and you’re there. Holy cow!
Some of the best of the late, great John Hughes 1980s movies are partially or wholly based in Chicago. The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and who can forget the concluding scene of his magnum opus Planes, Trains and Automobiles. They don’t make movies like those anymore.
Defund the worthless NGOs
I do like my country, I am just ashamed of the clowns running it
1 out of 10 , is as much as i know , about that place across the water ,that they call Chicago.
@Quinny: I got a 9/10, I live in a neighbouring State. Normally I max out of these quizzes with a 6/10!
@Quinny: not even about the pizzas EVERY ONE knows about that sure was the best place to eat in the 90s Chicago pizza pie factory in Stephens green
I got 7 out of 10. Chicago was a great city, now ruined by years of progressive politicians and police hating DAs.
Grant Mitchell and Simon Harris were born there
It’s was a lovely gothic city much destroyed in name of progress,
No
It’s also a good Graham Nash tune
Gangsters Irish cops valentine days massacre frank Sinatra
@Phillip Smyth: wasn’t sinatra from new jersey?
@Brian Dunne: think it’s a song
Sang Chicago.
Is this another article about Michael Shine?
8/10. I knows the windy apple.
VI Warshawski
Great city to experience Blues Music
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