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TOMMY TIERNAN IS set to don the iconic apron and enter the tent for the upcoming season of Channel 4′s The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer.
The Donegal comedian will compete in the baking competition against 20 famous faces, in the hopes of impressing the judges and raising funds for the UK-based cancer charity.
In each episode, four participants will face off, showcasing their baking skills in three rounds: Signature, Technical, and Showstopper, with one contestant earning the title of Star Baker.
Tommy will be joined by Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway, Loose Women’s Gloria Hunniford, and Chicken Shop Date’s Amelia Dimoldenberg.
Prue Leith’s close friend, Caroline Waldegrave, will step in as co-judge for this season, taking on the role previously held by Leith.
Waldegrave, a former co-owner and managing director of Leiths School of Food and Wine, will join judge Paul Hollywood to assess the celebrities’ creations.
Hosts Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding will return to offer their support and encouragement to the celebrity bakers as they compete in the iconic Bake Off tent.
The popular show is expected to air on Channel 4 this Spring.
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It always amazes me how many people on here don’t understand that it is important that governments act globally. There is no country on this planet that hasn’t got it’s own domestic challenges. That does not mean that all countries should cut themselves off from the rest of the globe. Anyway, if you took the home budget and put it next to the foreign budget for welfare, you’d probably find that 1m is the equivalent of a middle earner throwing ten cents in a homeless person’s cup. People need to get some perspective.
I personally would not spend a cent on ODA (because it’s pointless when we have unfair trade deals with them and the fact that they pay 100 times that aid back to our banks in debt), I have huge qualms spending 100s of millions on refugees who evidently are not remotely grateful for it…but lets keep this in proportion. The HSE spends more than this every week just on overtime for staff that don’t even need to be there.
We spend more than 20billion on a massive welfare budget, bigger than the NASA budget, to give pensions, sick pay, disability pay and jobseekers pay to our own people 37,000 of whom in the latter category have never worked and never paid a red cent in income tax or PRSI and almost all of whoms parents spent their entire lives on welfare. We spend 35m a year just on community based mental health projects. We spend 13billion of healthcare of Irish people, 8.7b to education including providing free secondary, primary and heavily subsidized university to everyone in Ireland who wants it.
We spent 9million just on the Intreo programme to turn FAS/DSP and all that into a one stop shop…that’s 9million on office space and BRANDING!!!
If we don’t contain this it will spread, as others have said. I’ll say what I always say to people saying ”f__k um leave them to it”…many of the people infected are children, the virus will destroy their immune system and turn their organs into pulp, with things happening like their entire stomachs disintegrating and dying from internal bleeding….anything we can do to help people suffering from that is a good thing,. You gotta also measure the two things against each other, sleeping rough is hard, but dying of a virus that turns your organs into pulp is far worse, and despite that we spend more than 100 times on homeless services to our own than we do for ebola aid.
People take the p1ss out of the old flat 7UP but it is actually a great cure for nausea, even really bad nausea. Take a glass of 7up, a Motilium and stick a hot water bottle on your stomach and it will be gone in 10 minutes. Works for me every time.
Sadly supportive care is the only thing they can give Ebola patients not directly involved in a clinical drug trial since there is no established cure or treatment. Supportive care being to treat the symptoms and give them pain relief like a morphine line.
If you take in a low enough number of particles of the virus your own immune system can fight it off.
Marc as 12 years of education has been demonstrably wasted on a large proportion of the Irish population, particularly the ones posting in Journal stories like this one, there’s billions of savings to be made in not wasting education them.
Why?
When 7,500 tonnes of bushmeat is sold in the uk
each year with the government been aware,it’s only
a matter of time when Ebola hits these shores like the
USA .
The money will be needed at home then.
Prevention is better than cure,exported bushmeat should
be banned first.
They think bites from bats might have been a factor as well they’re not sure they’re just theorizing. Ebola can’t live very long outside fluids or a human host so unless it’s eaten rare (with blood being present) cooking would destroy the virus. Besides all food sold in the UK with the exception of illegal street vendors is regulated by the FSA, and the people shopping at illegal meat vendors are tiny in number and the ones who eat meat rare are even smaller.
It’s CRITICAL to keep these threats in PROPORTION and understand whats possible and whats PROBABLE are very different things.
The number one thing they teach you in disaster preparedness and homeland security is mitigation by probability. We don’t have the resources to fund a plan for every possible contingency, so we gotta match what’s most probable up with those things that, if they happened, would do the most damage.
For example: A nuclear war, contrary to popular belief, would not cause human extinction unless there were multiple major exchanges of high-yield strategic warheads configured as groundbursts, and with all of the targets being to our east and north, and the prevailing winds in this area blowing north-east, with us having an agricultural surplus, we’d be doing pretty good, even if Dublin was hit we’d still be doing better than anyone else in Europe, so we don’t need to spend millions on Mount Weather/ Raven Rock /Mount Yamantau style underground cities. What’s the two most likely threats for Ireland in terms of homeland security that would do the most damage? Natural disasters and a global pandemic.
So that’s where most of our disaster planning focuses, it’s why we have a national pandemic plan, it’s why we have stockpiles of the Smallpox Vaccine, H1N1 vaccine, Tamiflu, Pediatric flu drugs, stockpiles of protective suits. If say an airborne strain of ebola hit Europe, we can close our ports and airports, and with health emergencies being an all-Ireland competence the NI executive can do the same, and were all sealed up with our agricultural surplus, with special controls on people importing essentials we don’t produce here on the island. So even in the worst possible scenario were doing better than most.
if the government have money to give away, come down to the so called UNIVERSITY hospital in limerick, 47 people on trolleys!
as mentioned already lets look after our own first
1m euro would not put even a tiny dent in that. Just to maintain the services we have at their current pathetic level the HSE is 500m short because the HSE has 1/3 more staff than it actually needs to operate because instead of replacing the health boards with the HSE board they merged all the health boards leading to massive staff duplication and triplication.
For those of you unaware, in conspiracy theorist lore, a particularly off the edge brand of conspiracy theorists think the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are the waiting in the wings shadow US govt who will take over after a series of executive orders by the dictator in waiting President dissolve the other branches of govt (who will, along with their individual armed services like the Federal Marshals Service and US Capitol Police, just go quietly and not resist in any way, apparently)
The camps will be used to detain and dispose of any REAL PATRIOTS GRRRR YEHHHHH (by real patriots they mean people like themselves, who tend to be either skinny teenagers in their mothers 3bedroom semi-D or basement who have seen one too many Alex Jones DVDs OR deranged loners who live in cabins away from cities with their own stockpile of weapons to fight the feds. The North American Union comes into it at some point too, and the plastic pez despenser coffins are to bury them with.
When you collect, as one person did, a full supposed list of these camps, there are more than 800 of them..and somehow nobody but REAL PATRIOTS YEHHHHH GRRRRRRRR have noticed them. The reason nobody have noticed them is because they are not camps but ordinary buildings and things like military bases that can look spooky on a google earth God-Shot (esp if you add some creative photo shopping). Some of the more realistic ones are actual camp shots taken from a commonly available MOD of google earth which gives you a google earth tour of north kroea
Helping the poorest in the world, the sickest, the weakest. Helping children and mothers. Don’t be so judgemental and uncharitable. If Ebola hits these Shores I’m sure people like you would be the first complaining that the world didn’t do enough.
People like me?
As in… concerned for the people on my own door step in my own country who are sleeping rough tonight or in desperate situations and not getting the help they need due to greed of the powers that be. Ah yes people like me what a selfish individual I am.
Did you watch the news this evening about st.christophers in longford?……but then helping our own disadvantaged or disabled in an unco county like longford doesnt matter….
Did you watch the news this evening about st.christophers in longford?……but then helping our own disadvantaged or disabled in an uncool county like longford doesnt matter….
Sleeping rough, bad as it is, bears no comparison to trying to stop an epidemic that’s already killed thousands or will kill millions worldwide if it’s allowed to spread is a no-brainer…Oops ! on second thoughts why an I wasting my time responding to people who have no brains ?
@simon gaites: no but did however find a old man living in an outhouse shed after his house had burnt down, everyone thought he had moved on to a different area as he was a loner and spoke to nobody, so I rang around for two days solid and got him emergency accommodation in Thurles.
So don’t question me on my charity doings I very much do all I can to help within my means for both man and animal. Good day to you.
Let me guess what type of charity you partake in: throw €2 in a bucket and think that’s your bit done for society.
Welcome to the dark ages and the red thumb brigade who think Ireland should exist in a bubble and not get involved with the rest of the world. Epidemics of this nature is a global problem! Those people that begrudge what little aid we offer obviously cannot see beyond their noses.
Look at us….arent we great little fellas donating millions all the time. We’re a great bunch o lads……..did anyone watch the news tonight about disability care in longford? Nah….cos its not cool man…..i cant post that on the internet cos people in peru who might read it wont care….
I’d rather see our money go to an international regulated charity than any unregulated irish charity where we don’t know where de fupp our donations our government contributions go…
Why do countries pledge money instead of the Fed or ECB? After all, we are borrowing this money at interest and then donating it. If those ‘banks’ just donated the money, it would make sense as it is in there ‘interest’ to keep us alive so we can pay the other interest based debts that exist. Without us, no debts will be paid.
On another note i heard from a fella who knows a bloke that drinks with a man that knows a fella that played five aside with a friend of Enda Kenny, by all accounts Kenny has a cure but won’t release it until Mcnulty gets his seat.
I find people, pretty much most that have posted here, to be so stuck in a bubble of us and them…
We all live on this planet TOGETHER to put someone being uncomfortable on a trolley in Limerick above a victim of ebola is beyond all reason, really pops my toaster
And we should all live on snowdrop road and skip through fields of buttercups on our way to work in the chocolate factory…….get real…..it is us and them…….how do you think we got lumbered with billions of debt!
I’d rather see our money go to an international regulated charity than any unregulated irish charity where we don’t know where de fupp our donations our government contributions (basically our money) goes…
Maybe spend that million at the airport and ports to stop it coming here. There is significant travel between here and Africa and with Ebola having been transmitted to the US, it is certainly cause for concern here in my opinion. Are there any control measures at airports here?
this is way more serious than we thought it to be. First case in Spain and there are 22 people already isolated and searching for more contact suspects. From Spain to Ireland there are just 2 hours of flight.
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