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More Amazing Facts You breathe on average about 5 million times a year. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206. The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it. The present population of the world is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colourant IN THIS ISSUE wasn't added. Know Your Rights Coffins used for cremation are usually made with Pat Walker plastic handles. Haven "Almost" is the longest word in the English Village Veterinary Clinic language with all the letters in alphabetical order. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a COMMUNITY NEWS church in Nebraska. Douglas Earth is the only planet not named after a god. Ballinlough The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old! Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! Only (Now Only€20) €20) T H A N K S G I V I N G N O T I C E (Now The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own Our Lady of Mount weight in 56 days. Carmel If removed from the stress of the modern world, O Most beautiful flower of the average human would sleep about 10 hours a Mount Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of Heaven, Blessed day. Mother of the Son of God, To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity. O Star of would have to visit 2 million flowers. the Sea, help me and show me herein You are my Mother. O Holy Mary, Mother of God, A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech 250,000 insects in an hour. You from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. There are none that can One in Five adults believe withstand Your power. O show me herein You that aliens are hiding in are my Mother. O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. O show our planet disguised as me herein You are my Mother. O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have humans! recourse to Thee. O show me herein You are Travelling masseuses in my Mother. O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee. ancient Japan were Sweet Mother, I place this cause in Your hands. Sweet Mother, I place this cause in Your hands. required by law to be blind. Sweet Mother, I place this cause in Your hands
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The Independent Voice in Your Council.
Joe Harris
Is Austerity Hurting You? Lets Make A Stand Together. Let me be brutally honest - Austerity is Destroying Us.
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I know what it is like to not be able to pay a parking fine given in Douglas, I know what it is like when the final demand letters and phone calls come in, I know what it is like to depend on the great work of The Saint Vincent De Paul, I know what it is like to try and live on €186.00 a week with four children to support, I know what it is like to have to ask your brothers and sisters for a loan of €10.00 each week to buy food,
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Cork County Council as a Planning Authority is able to levy planning contributions on developers during the planning process. These contributions can take the form of ' Special Contributions ' which are levied for specific purposes and must be spent within the area of the development. For example, special contributions can be levied for infra-structural improvements, such as roads, footpaths, pedestrian safety, recreational facilities in an area and so on. I have put forward a number of written motions before Council meetings on this issue which highlighted that the Council is not spending these contributions in a timely manner. In response to my motions, the Council stated that €16 million from special contributions across the County was retained by the Council at one point. The figure currently stands at approximately €10 million. Communities, including Douglas and Rochestown, have a wide range of needs for this type of funding. The Council's approach of sitting on this funding for prolonged periods before spending it must change. It should be spent in a proactive and timely manner so that communities can reap the benefits. In relation to the €10 million currently held by the Council, these contributions relate to developments already built and it is grossly unfair that communities are left waiting for the infra-structural improvements associated with these special contributions.
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Lynch TD PATIENTS ASSURED THAT BEST MEDICINE WILL CONTINUE TO BE PRESCRIBED Patients who require a specific medicine that is not suitable for substitution by a generic will be able to continue their original prescription, the HSE has confirmed in a response to a Parliamentary Question by Labour TD Ciaran Lynch. Deputy Lynch said, “The introduction of generic medicines is to be strongly welcomed, as it will makes significant savings to the Exchequer. However, it is important that the medicine that works best is provided to patients. “I welcome the position by the HSE, that where the medicine is specific and required, that facility will continue. “They have clarified to me that, in cases where the patient's doctor believes a prescribed product should not be substituted, the doctor can simply mark 'do not substitute' on the prescription. In this way, the product will be exempt from substitution, and the patient can keep receiving the original medicine without an added co-payment. “This will come as a reassurance to patients, who may have concerns about their current prescription being replaced with a generic medicine. These concerns have now been addressed, and thankfully patients and doctors now have clarity as to where they stand.”
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Jerry Buttimer T.D.
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Tel: 021 484 06 52 Mob: 086 235 68 92 Email: jerry.buttimer@oir.ie Landmark day for child protection in Ireland Houses of the Oireachtas publishes the Children First Bill 2014 Cork South Central Fine Gael TD and Chairperson of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, Jerry Buttimer, has welcomed the publication of the Children First Bill 2014, by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald TD. The legislation will put the Children First Guidelines on a statutory footing. “Today is a landmark day for child protection in Ireland, with the publication of the Children First Bill 2014. The commitment to publish this legislation is a key feature of the Program for Government, as well as being a recommendation of the 2009 Ryan Report Implementation Plan. “From day one this Government proved it takes the matter of child protection very seriously with the appointment of the first ever Cabinet Minister for Children, my colleague Frances Fitzgerald TD. I commend Minister Fitzgerald for living up to her responsibilities in this area; this is the first time that key elements of Children First Guidelines will be put on a statutory footing since they were first published in 1999. “The Children First Bill is crucially important in ensuring best practise in child welfare and child protection. The Bill will ensure there is an explicit requirement on mandated persons to report child protection concerns to the Child and Family Agency (Tusla) including among others: medical practitioners; registered nurses; teachers; social CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS workers; Gardaí; psychologists; members of the clergy; pre-school child care staff ; child protection officers of religious, sporting; cultural, recreational and educational organisations offering services to children.“The Bill also forms part of a suite of child protection legislation which already includes the Criminal Justice (Withholding of Information on Offences against Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012 and the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012. “The Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, of which I am Chair, will be actively involved in the passage of this legislation. We will be examining the Bill in detail when it reaches Committee stage. I look forward to working closely with Minister Fitzgerald in bringing about this positive new initiative for the protection of children in Ireland.”
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SPORT Douglas Camogie club
U14 For the first time since 2009 our club is sending a team to the Feile finals to take place in Ulster in June. Our U14 squad commenced their path to the finals on Sunday 27th of April in Clonakilty where they recorded three wins agianst Cloughduv, Brian Dillons and Clonakility respectivley to secure a place in the semi final against Bride Rovers on Weds 30th Douglas got off to a flying start and never let up even when it was clear that a win and a place in the Cork division final
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“The little Scottish island of Moray boasts the grandly titled “Bridge over the Atlantic” (The locals gloss over the L E D G E R S U N S E T fact that, at this point the Atlantic is only a few feet wide). The bridge is only single track and every morning McLeod the postman drives his van at breakneck speed over the “Jim White watched in exasperation as the soccer team he bridge and onto the island. However, every morning the had led to world fame over five years was trounced by local milkman drives his van at similar speed across the Brazil. It was just awful! No matter how much he bellowed bridge as he leaves the island. Neither could ever bring advice and encouragement nobody took the slightest notice. himself to give way, so why is there never an accident? He almost wept with sheer frustration. At last the whole I
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