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If you genuinely believe that excess profits are being made in the PBSA market I am surprised the Students’ Union has not entered the market itself and provided lower-cost student accommodation for its members.
Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan came under fire to this comment, made in response to a students’ union president objecting to student accommodation being temporarily used for tourism.
The advice will be given as soon as we have it ready to go.
NIAC chair Karina Butler on when new advice on a Covid booster campaign might be published.
Fundamentally we’re on a knife-edge.
Professor Philip Nolan on the sudden change in the trajectory of Covid in the past week.
I am hugely disappointed that the Executive and Department of Health are continuing to seem to wilfully neglect the welfare and rights of women and girls in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland secretary of state Brandon Lewis after a High Court judge ruled that he failed to comply with his duties by not expeditiously ensuring provision for full abortion services for women in the region.
Maybe someday we’ll get our chance, and that somebody will come forward and help us. Any piece of no matter how small, it’s very important. That’s all we want: for someone not to feel afraid to come forward after nearly 26 years now. We would ask them not to be afraid, they won’t be judged and it will be dealt with in a very sensitive matter.
The sister of Jo Jo Dullard, Kathleen Bergin, speaking after gardaí investigating the disappearance of a number of women in Leinster during the 1990s launched a major search operation.
I genuinely believe the ministers are trolling us.
Sinn Féin TD Mairead Farrell speaking in the Dáil on the government’s attempts to tackle the cost of living.
Future generations will not tolerate inaction from the leaders of today. But, by future generations, I do not just mean children yet to be born. Children, teenagers, and the younger adults of today demand action. They deserve action. They are clear in their arguments and the science is unambiguous: the world is burning, and the only chance we have to control those fires is through coherent and effective policies.
Part of Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe’s Budget 2022 speech, explaining why carbon taxation measures were introduced.
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Does The Journal struggle to come up with polls sometimes?
@easilyfrustrateddad: that’ll be the next poll
@easilyfrustrateddad: they can always fall back on the ‘do you think there will be an election’ or ‘should the clocks bo back/forward’ polls.
@easilyfrustrateddad: how about…..do you support the idea that all involved in the government and management of the public health service not be permitted to hold private health insurance…. yes or no.
@Fergus Quinlan: Wow you dragged that one in kicking and screaming.
Definitely find it harder to work!
Drink plenty of water. It’ll hydrate you and bring your core temperature down so easier to sleep
@Paul: Yea and then need to p*iss one hour later!
@Longlin: And an hour after that.
Do bear’s **** in the woods
Put snoring pooches into the answer and it’s harder still lol.
@Ian O’Donovan: don’t sleep cuddling your dog!
@Sean: he’s on the floor on a cool mat but jeepers for a cavalier he’s some snorer ‘_’
@Ian O’Donovan: jeepers, really.
Put fans in the bedroom, the noise is constant so your brain will cancel it out. I remember one particular night in Dun Laoghaire, as a teenager, the heat was so bad I couldn’t sleep. It must have been about 22°, so the brother and I walked the dog. I’ve since slept through 34° nights, albeit badly. It’s a question of being used to high temperatures and also perspective. When Ireland is announcing a heatwave after 7 days of 25° highs during the day, I have to smile because being used to living in South East France, we are lucky if the night time temperature is that low during the summer.
@David Stapleton: Think you might have sun stroke there !
@Ken Bramley: Come and see for yourself. I recommend this Sunday, the temperature is forecast to be 39°…
@David Stapleton: found it very difficult in France at night during previous heatwave 3 weeks ago. Now I’m home, I find warm Irish nights aren’t nearly as bad.
@David Stapleton: so true. If your not used to it that’s a high temp. I’m used to warm weather in Sydney but a few years back there was the euro heatwave. I was standing in Madrid square at 11pm and it was 39oc. Shocking.
Still went out on an air bnb tour. Note to self. Every street and sq in Madrid looks the same, gps dosent work, there are no taxi, don’t stay out drinking till 4am :-)
@Steven Powell: I remember it well, between 3 and 5 in the morning the temperature went down to a cool 27°/28° and started rising even before the sun was up. My brothers were over in Late October, and after living in 44° to 46° it was a relatively mild 35°, mild for us, not so much for the brothers. Everything is relative.
Ceiling fan is your only man!
Fill a hot water bottle with cold water. Best thing to beat the heat. Can even keep the covers on…. Thank me later.
The next poll should be: “Do you think people who answer online polls are intellectually-impoverished”?
Yes funny that. I also find it hard to sleep if someone is snoring next to my head or if I had a redbull before hitting the hay. This could be a good follow up poll
Politicians in their big mansions have no problems sleeping with the AC on…
@James Lough: Yes. I’m sure Mary Lou had aircon on her First Class flight
@lelookcoco: oh yeah, you wouldn’t like to see a communist getting hot and bothered.
@lelookcoco: As did Eamon Ryan and Catherine Noone I’d guess.
@Billy McNamara: Sorry,Catherine Martin I ment to say.
@Billy McNamara: Eamonn Ryan & Catherine Martin flew business class and were on government business. Mary Lou is first class nobody.
Feel dehydrated at night? Try sleeping on a waterbed.
Yes.
Sydney Australia. :-)
Btw. It’s winter here I hope it’s 26 when I get back to Eire next week.
Bloody hell…this the best you can come up with…
a good pair of shoes and a good mattress if your not in one your in the other http://www.mattressmonkey.ie
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