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AS IF COMING back from a long weekend wasn’t hard enough – the traffic and weather are not making it any easier today.
There has already been widespread rainfall this morning, something that Met Eireann says will continue throughout the day.
These spells of rain, which will be on the east coast and central areas of the country will be “heavy and persistent”.
“The rain will clear the southwest and west during the morning and the day will brighten there with just the occasional shower this afternoon.”
The rain will clear tonight, but showers will be back tomorrow and Thursday.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, traffic has been heavy in a number of areas.
In Dublin, O’Connell Street northbound was blocked as emergency services dealt with a crash, but traffic is still moving slowly and another crash on the M50 northbound at junction 10 Ballymount has traffic moving slowly.
Traffic on the M7 northbound is heavier than usual in Kildare and two crashes on the N28 in Cork – both on the Carrigaline Road – have traffic moving slowly.
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So Dublin city which has at least twice the population of Cork has more births . Jesbus what a scoop !!!!!!!!!!!
Only just, by about 20%. Probably due to CUMH serving a much bigger area than Cork alone
I am sure the CSO use the parents address rather than the hospital address when counting births by county.
They’re using the individual county/city council local authority areas, not regions.
Pops:
Dublin City : 527,612
(Dublin all local authorities: 1,273,069)
Cork County: 399,802
(Cork City and County : 519,032)
this rubbish is not news
All we want to know are the birth rates and are they rising and falling and the reasons why. The article was full of padding and doesn’t quite tell the reader what they want.
Also, Dublin city probably doesn’t include, Fingal and Dun Laoghaire and those other county areas, but who knows.
I take that back, there is a graph with the rates.
Most idiotic headline ever.
At least you can comment on it unlike the Hickey ones?
Must be really a quiet news day?
It’s not actually.
But as usual the Journal locks down comments on the important stories.
Even when they’re happening outside this jurisdiction.
Pathetic editorial stance.
Realistic looking Irish family in the photo … Not
You man must be brushing his teeth with Weathershield to get them that white.
Tbf, have you seen the women in Cork?
I know it’s hard to get a girl into bed when she’s not strung out on heroin!
Sums fail Beachmaster.
If Dublin has more than double the population of Cork, and Cork is only 25% behind in births…. It seems the amount of procreation going on per head is a lot higher in Cork.
They are all stunners in Havanas at 3am after a few Captains and Coke and a Heino chaser
Old peoples homes are not brothels Beachmaster ;)
Battle of the babies. How do you chaps come up with this shit.
Just double the amount of skangers going around the place so!
HON DUBLIN BABIES
Can people stop saying hon?
Cork has a higher HIV problem than Dublin as well?
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