He drank three pints of Guinness before closing time. John arrived at the pub around 8pm every evening.
The stories were embellished with each telling but we're all the better for it. It reminds me of one of the many stories my late father told me about the customers of the family pub. The Government’s introduction of minimum alcohol pricing is a progressive step if it encourages people to drink a little less.
Will minimum pricing on alcohol deter drinking? Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie A broad holistic education that appeals to our students’ hearts, as well as their minds, can never be adequately captured in a league table. Therefore, we should educate our post-primary students not with university or further education in mind but rather we must endeavour to instil a desire for lifelong learning, encouraging all students to flourish. Your publication over the years has highlighted what is often described as college ‘drop out’ rates. The measure of a school is much more than how many of its students ‘progress’ to further education of any kind. It is good to see that even amidst uncertain times courtesy of the ongoing pandemic, the media obsession with ranking schools and league tables shows no signs of abating - ‘Munster feeder school rankings reveals dominance of fee-paying schools in Cork’ (Irish Examiner, January 7). League tables are a bad measure for schools The many mouth-watering nutritional delicious products we get from dairy, beef, poultry, mutton, and pigs that our farmers produce every day - and which sustain life itself - are under attack. One of the selling points of vegan products is that they taste the same, however, they fall very short when it comes to nutrition. Vegan products fall very far short of what our bodies need.
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The milk they produce during their lives gives proven nutrition to all of our bodies.Įnvironmental groups are too busy bashing animal husbandry and should be asked to show a way forward on how to feed people a proven, balanced diet before they get rid of the most proven food sources obtained from animals for generations. We need to convene a Citizens’ Assembly and have ordinary people from all walks of life give their views and opinions.Ĭows’ milk gives proven nutrition to all of our bodies.Ĭows serve a very important part of all our children’s daily lives. Putting our heads in the sand is not going to work.
Everybody on the island North and South will benefit, and we will benefit for generations.īut this will require planning and preparation. Some people don’t need to be convinced, others will never be convinced, but more still (North and South) are giving it consideration and have yet to make up their minds.Īs a United Ireland within Europe, we will not be doubling up on services, two healthcare systems, two tax systems, two civil services, but we will be able to attract more foreign direct investment to the whole island, increase tourism to the whole island, and benefit from being in the EU.ĭavid McWilliams in his book Renaissance Nation stated: ‘In short, in pure budgetary terms, there is little doubt that the Republic’s economy could absorb the North, even before the commercial dynamism of unification kicks in.’ So, to answer the question, should we? We should of course.
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