Jaysus you’d think this Willum fella could afford an auld toupee.
Berno could have at least taken his other hand out of his pocket.
Did the Cambridges not head up to McCambridge’s for a spot of lunch?
I don’t get this at all. A woman gets together with her friends to have cake and drinks to watch a royal wedding? FFS…
Can’t wait for the turn out for the Spanish royal family…
There’s fellas on here who spend a small fortune to get dressed up, go and get pissed drunk in a field, fucking good money and after bad and watch midgets whip horses around a ring.
There’s nowt as quare as folk.
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Electric picnic ??
There’s a few mares, but no horses getting whipped at the Picnic.
This sleeveen of a cunt, even went to his parish priest to get a character reference…
Saddened to learn of the death of the great Tim Robinson of coronavirus, only two weeks after the death of his wife. A Yorkshire man who came to live back in Roundstone in the early eighties, having lived in the Aran Islands for a few years before that. He charted extraordianarily detailed maps of Connemara, Aran, and also the Burren, if I’m not mistaken.
Following his map-making exploits he went on to write several books, again on the Connemara landscape, on the people he met and of the stories they had to tell. Many of these stories would have been long-since forgotten by locals but for him. I’m sure he got many’s the “What does this fucker want!” when lads would see him coming but he was a brilliant writer and came to be highly respected, not just in Connemara but beyond. Pretty sure he featured on RTE a few times and Fintan O’Toole has written a fine piece about him in the Times today.
Perhaps his greatest achievement was learning the Irish language fluently. It’s only in recent years that I’ve begun to explore his work, the book above being my own particular favourite. His knowledge of my own neck of the woods put me to shame and has left me with a sense of regret that I never got to know the man better, may he Rest in Peace.
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Fear na mapaí wasn’t it. A very interesting character. RIP
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Sin é, he surely was. Not sure if he ever did any work beyond the corrib.
No but he did in nogras southern karst mountainous region
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A brave man to be venturing down that neck of the woods!
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Lovely obituary there Jimmy. Maith thú
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Grma, a mhác.
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Coronavirus: How does Galway compare to other cities around the world?
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April 12, 2020
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The official number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ireland rose to 8,928 yesterday after test results which were sent to Germany for testing were included in the figures.
The number of cases in Galway, as of midnight on Thursday, now stands at 169, after nine more people were diagnosed with the disease in yesterday’s data.
Behind every number in these statistics is a person with a disease caused by a virus with no cure. Every number has a name.
While keeping this in mind, statistics are important in order to analyse the current situation for the government and health experts and can offer insights into where countries stand, especially when making predictions.
One way which experts are looking at the number of cases and deaths is by calculating the number of confirmed cases or deaths per 100,000 people.
It is by using this calculation that the Spanish media is reporting that the country now has the world’s highest mortality rate, despite Italy reporting more deaths.
Crime rates are often calculated in this way to give a truer picture of the prevalence of crime in a city or area.
Using this formula, and ignoring microstates and other countries with very small populations, Ireland is the sixth worst affected country in the world in terms of confirmed cases, after Spain, Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland.
Before looking at the numbers, however, it is important to remember one or two things.
Comparing the number of deaths per 100,000 population is not without its flaws. And it’s the same with confirmed cases.
Individual counties have their own methods of testing and reporting cases. Counties which have tested rigourously will report more cases than countries which are only testing people who are experiencing significant health problems.
Secondly, not every country is at the same stage of the crisis – Italy, for example, was reporting thousands of cases before the reality sank in for many European nations, which were at the time relatively unaffected by the virus.
Finally, the smallest countries in Europe in terms of population and size tend to have a much higher number of confirmed cases per 100,000 people than larger countries.
Andorra, Luxemburg, San Marino and the Vatican City make up the top four most affected countries using this formula. But these microstates have very small populations and are situated between or surrounded by other countries with a large number of COVID-19 cases. Built up areas also tend to have much more cases – big cities are more generally affected than rural areas.
While bearing all of this in mind, let’s see where we stand in comparison to other regions and countries.
The Republic now has 8,928 cases and an estimated population of just over 4.9 million.
That means that the state has 180 cases per 100,000 population.
The table below lists a selection of countries, cities and regions and the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 people, using the latest data available.
| City/Region/ Country | COVID-19 cases per 100k population |
|---|---|
| County Galway | 65 |
| Rep of Ireland | 180 |
| Northern Ireland | 91.3 |
| Island of Ireland | 170 |
| County Dublin | 308 |
| Lombardy, Italy | 575 |
| County Cavan | 222 |
| London | 168 |
| Brussels | 258 |
| Madrid | 706 |
| Andalucia, Spain | 119 |
| New York | 923 |
| USA | 161 |
| California | 57.2 |
| Sweden | 100 |
| County Cork | 107 |
| Germany | 149 |
| County Donegal | 105 |
| United Kingdom | 116 |
| Belgium | 255 |
Capital of culture 2020, its a Chinese
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City Of It’s Our Culture Boss 2020
It’s a lovely restaurant but loses marks for not providing as extensive a menu as the Dublin branch opposite Keoghs
