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.

The Romanian language

According to a report a Romanian language channel will be brought to millions of screens via the Politehnica din Buchareşti, university of Bucharest; but is Romanian the original language of Romania? Romania was originally pronounced rumania. The Daco-roman theory was that Romanians are a mixture of roman colonists from the roman era and the inhabitants of a large area including Bulgaria/ Hungary and others. Romanian is an eastern romance language, that is a language of Rome. It was noted as being spoken in Gyor, now part of Hungary, during the 18th Century.

Still in prison

Julian Assange has not been allowed to go free even though a London court has disallowed his extradition to the united states. The British justice system which has been described as a cancer, has denied Assange liberty during and since his political asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, and according to various reports has denied him civil and legal rights since.

Is Joe Biden all he seems?

The newscaster said one person died during protests which reportedly disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in Capitol Hill today. According to a source, 70% of Republicans believe the election to be unlawful. Joe Biden who says he is for Ireland and isn’t, was seen on Irish tv before the election saying that democrats will be counting every vote, including those from illegal immigrants. Not known if they did.

British nuclear tests in Australia

British nuclear tests in the south Pacific are a subject of controversy though rarely talked about. According to a report, in 2011 the British supreme court agreed in theory to the idea of compensating military personnel who were involved in nuclear bomb tests during the 1950’s though they had to prove their health problems were related to the nuclear tests. The initial case reportedly consisted of over a thousand ex-military men versus the mod. The soldiers were seeking compensation for health problems such as cancer, skin defects and fertility problems they say were linked to nuclear tests in the south Pacific: A document dated 1956 describes tests using 24 soldiers who were wearing protective clothing being purposely exposed to high amounts of radiation.

According to a report, in 2010 the Australian government paid compensation amounting to Aus $24.2 million to Australian military personnel who took part in a British nuclear testing program.

Reportedly the Australian and British governments spent Aus $108 million decontaminating the Maralinga and Emu sites. According to the report, in 1986 the Australian government paid just Aus $500,000 to indigenous populations for land contaminated during the course of the British testing program. In 1991 the Australian government paid the Maralinga Tjarutju people Aus $13.5 million for displacing them from their land. People living in surrounding areas are also thought to have been affected via airborne radiation. In 2010 the Aboriginal legal rights movement were intending to sue the British government.

Are Mayo meat plants still a concern?

A chicken processing plant in Ballyhaunis is applying for planning permission for a new pipeline from their existing discharge pipe to the River Glore, but worries about covid 19 have arisen since 40% of samples from Mayo meat plants tested positive for corona virus disease during the space of one month, thought to be September to 7th October. No details seemingly published since.