Grants available for extra customs and businesses

According to a report there is €9000 available in the form of post Brexit Grants for customs. Since Britain’s departure from the single market and the customs union, customs and health and safety criteria have resulted in 24 hour checks at all seaports to ensure the required information is detailed. Reportedly, last week there was an easing of some of the requirements for freight, details unexplained.

With regard to small businesses the message seems to be apply for the grants available to ease the transition period and do it yourself.

Barriers to identity

According to a report, the supreme court appointed attorney general who is legal advisor to the taoiseach did not pass new legislation that would give the child victims of enforced adoption the right to unrestricted access to information about their identity, thought to be a fundamental human right.

Donald Trump

Tuesday was reportedly Donald Trump’s last day in office. During his term he has been accused of shaking world war II global order with the withdrawal and threatened withdrawal from thought to be u.n. institutions such as the world health organisation. He has reportedly criticised the world trade organisation and nato, though seemingly no action taken.

Confusingly he opposed another u.n. contingent, Turkey in backing Kurds. A disappointment was the breakdown of trade talks with China; and he reportedly backed Hungary who are protesting the eu rule of law, that is acceptable standards for consumers.

British east India company

According to a report the Indian political activist who shot Mahatma Ghandi in 1948 is at the centre of a memorial library and ceremony attended by a large group of nationals on Sunday. Nathuram Vinayak Godse who was said to have been a fervent believer in nationalism reportedly shot Gandhi for agreeing to the partitioning of india by creating a Pakistani state for muslims. Resulted in people losing their homes, much anger, displacement and conflict even to this day.

Some sources believe Ghandi failed to stand up to the British who had taken so much via the east India company, EIC, who reportedly destroyed gold mine sites before leaving. According to reports southern and western Africa were other sources of gold, thought now to be stored in Fort Knox and guarded by the United states military.

Ulster bank said to be winding down business in the south

According to a report the Bank of Ireland are scaling back a northern Ireland innitiative which could mean closing some of its 28 branches north of the border as an alternative to giving up on the northern Ireland market. Bank of Ireland northern Ireland who are said to currently employ 600 staff reportedly have 200,000 consumers, less than 10% of the market. According to the report Ulster Bank northern Ireland said to be owned by the Natwest group, reportedly the biggest lender north of the border is winding down business in southern Ireland.

Trade

Anxiety about Brexit is mainly thought to concern trade. Regarding imports, a source has warned of empty supermarket shelves and job losses unless new Brexit rules are relaxed. Trade with other european partners is problematic, seemingly due to Britain’s monopoly of routes. All this and the taoiseach and his predecessor continue to identify with Britain.

With regard to exports, statistics published in the last quarter of 2020 showed positive covid results in 40% of samples from Irish meat plants.

The need for compensation for mothers and babies

With regard to compensation for former sufferers in mother and baby homes, problems with various epidemics during the 20th Century have not been recognised, nor has the cruelty of babies being ripped apart from their mothers, who then reportedly, if their families did not pick them up, were made to stay and used for slave labour in what was termed magdalene laundries.

EU fund should help countries cope with Brexit

According to a report the eu have allocated €5.4 billion to help countries adjust to Brexit. Ireland is believed to have been allocated just over a billion. Reportedly the fund was set up last year in response to the covid pandemic.

Concerns were raised in government reportedly Wednesday that freight from Britain were failing to provide the Brexit required paperwork. According to a Dublin source, currently 70% of British freight are getting immediate clearance.

Mother and baby homes

The cause of the very high mortality rate in Irish mother and baby homes reportedly cannot be determined on examination of the bones, to many peoples’ anger found in unconsecrated graves, probably due to an epidemic. Spanish flu was rampant during 1918 and 19. According to a report a third of the world’s population became infected leading to an estimated 50 million or more deaths globally.

Seemingly the homes existed because there was no financial support from the state for unmarried women who became pregnant, and in cases of a lack of family support mother and baby homes were possibly the only option.