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“We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban or conservative versus liberal.”
US President Joe Biden struck a conciliatory tone in his inauguration speech.
“Have a nice life.”
Donald Trump’s parting wish to the United States as his presidency came to an end.
“In the first phase particularly, nurses were the last people to see the patients before they died. Unfortunately, they couldn’t always be with them because of the lack of PPE and the question of whether it was protecting staff, we had to reduce staff exposure to 15 minutes. It was really difficult and a lot of the time patients did die on their own.”
Bernie Waterhouse, clinical nurse manager at St James’ Hospital in Dublin and the first healthcare worker to receive a Covid vaccine in the Republic, spoke about working on the frontlines right now.
“We can’t have a fishing industry that doesn’t have enough fish to catch.”
CEO John Ward of the Irish Fish Producers Organisation spoke to an Oireachtas committee about the crisis facing his industry.
“Why should we leave the EU debate to anti-EU parties? Why? [...] For all those who believe in the EU project, this is not the time to sit back and be complacent.”
The words of the EU’s former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier.
“There can be nothing more essential than providing care and education for children with additional needs.”
Minister for Education Norma Foley hit out at unions who this week pulled out of plans to reopen schools for children with special education needs.
“I’m relieved to have the two doses and can’t wait to see my family and grandchildren. I felt fine after the first dose, no after effects at all. I am delighted to have received the second dose.”
Annie Lynch received her second dose of a Covid vaccine.
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Ah, the Saudis….a great bunch o lads.
Really?! I am shocked…NOT!
@Optimus Prime: I am shocked that it took them 1yr to crack the phone encryption. I thought they bragged about a company which sold decryption software for iPhone.
Maybe US is just choosing right time to out the news.
@Optimus Prime: Time to call in the decepticons Optimus!
How do you know someone has an iPhone? They tell you.
@Oretani Wildlife: How do you know someone has no value to contribute to a discussion but craves attention like a little child, irrelevant jokes.
@Oretani Wildlife: what a contribution!
@Oretani Wildlife: that joke is about 9 years old. Well done.
@Oretani Wildlife: Some would argue that the only people who talk about iPhones are the ones that don’t own one!
Touchy touchy, boys. You should call round and brighten up my day.
Okay so it was Saudi nationals that carried out the 911 attack and this one but they are big big customers of the arms exporters and bomb industry, and allies in the fight against whoever is the current bogey man.
When you train Saudi Army pilots in the USA and U.K. what can go wrong ?
Saudi kingdom is an abomination in the 21century, one family controlling trillions of dollars of the country’s wealth for their personal benefit. I’m a small capitalist but for such a regime to exist, and bizarrely supported by the USA, while US pretend to preach democracy, US foreign policy has always displayed a total hypocrisy to its espoused values, if there was any benefit to themselves. America first, yes that sums it up, f.u,,. the rest of the world. this cosy relationship with Saudi, us forces based there, is why Osama bin laden was motivated to start his war with the USA.
Get Carrie and Saul on the case!
@John Quill: Carrie’s watching Russian opera these days…(spoiler alert).
@Declan McArdle: saw it
It’s amazing that the terrorist have a 5 year old iPhone with all that info on it.
So the group behind it claimed it was them but the US gov is arguing that all iPhone users should have their privacy undermined, definitely by US government more than likely by others and also possibly non state actors because they weren’t 100% sure when the terrorist organisation said “that’s our guy!”, about a guy from a nation that produced 9/11 and many other attackers, that they were telling the truth?
I mean, if this stopped an incoming attack or something I could see the logic in having a debate but there’s no way this is worth even considering undermining everyone’s privacy, it’s law enforcement being either pedantic or too lazy (to trace his contact to the group through traditional means) or more than likely not trusting their Saudi counterparts which is a crack in the wall that should not be wall papered over yet again, especially at such a great cost to privacy.
Time to invade Iraq again so.
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