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Updated at 2.00pm
THE CSO HAS released preliminary results of the 2011 census, which was carried out in April.
The figures – which CSO statistician Shaun McLaughlin stressed were only “early results” based on summary counts – show Ireland’s population continuing to increase. There were an estimated 4,581,269 people living in the country on census night, a growth of 8.1 per cent since the last census in 2006.
Here are some of the other main findings:
Further data is available broken down by area on the CSO’s census 2011 website.
Additional reporting by Susan Ryan
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My knowledge tells me these are two letter Os in parenthesis and my imagination tells me they are boobs.
Forget about knowledge or imagination Dunn, you’re just very sad….
I guess that’s a matter of perception, Glen.
No imagination no light bulb – 1% inspiration – simple really .
” Imagination cannot exist without knowledge .The more they are in balance the closer to wisdom one becomes ! ”
Ching Zo – Chinese Philosopher .
Heard once that “Without Imagination The World Has No Colour” and I think thats true..
Knowledge is key.
But I couldn’t fathom life without my imagination …… Even if it tends to be over active at times.
If you think about it a lot of our knowledge comes from other people’s imaginations.
I love using my imagination. I would be described as being ‘introverted’. I like thinking more than talking and love playing with my imagination. I’m hardly ever bored.
best way to be
No TV and computers will increase imagination!
Imagination fuels knowledge.
And with a little knowledge your imagination can run wild.
What if – you couldn’t imagine knowledge, or had no knowledge of imagination?
Would pigs still fly – or sleeping dogs lie?
I believe they come hand in hand as if you had no imagination innovative would never be discovered.
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
John was a genius with a great imagination
Which came first .. the chicken or the egg?
The conditions that gave life to what would eventually become what we know as a chicken came first and then it decided it wanted to reproduce early in it’s development. I imagine.
The chicken of course
The chicken. Genesis 1:21-22 says “21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”
Conversely, Hinduism, Egyptian creation stories and the oral tradition of Pikkiwoki the Papua New Guinea Mud God all have the world hatching from an egg, which therefore predated the chicken.
So Genesis is outvoted 3-1.
Man knew the world was flat and couldn’t imagine it any other way so of course imagination is more important than knowledge. I also have this quote tattooed down my left arm.
I have one simple question. Does anyone on here think we will have a modern day Einstein?
I always thought Carl Sagan came close, in terms of knowledge and an endless imagination.
Good question, The answer I think is yes. But there’s a slight problem in recognition in our era.
Would Einstein be brilliant if alive today? Well he probably would but there’s that many people around today nitpicking every theory he wouldn’t be recoginsed as much.
I’d recognise his hair anywhere….
Imagination is the fuel, the code breaker, the barrier remover for knowledge.
But when imagination is confused for knowledge it is not good.
Religion is imagination confused for knowledge.
If you are going to court you need knowledge if you are going to a art museum you need imagination
Yes. I hate reading a book that goes into too much depth. The likes of Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs are a great example. If I wanted to read an encyclopedia I would.
To dream of a better world is imagination. To build this better world requires knowledge. To have one with out the other is like having a cAr with no engine. But when combined, they can take us anywhere.
Super article! Love it Naomi!
You can always imagine to travel at the speed of light, but having the knowledge is knowing how to implement it, but the fact that someone had that dream is as equal thank having a knowledge, without someone like JFK per say, human kind wouldn’t have visited the moon is the way it happened. it was his dream and desire to make it happen within less than 10 years as he first said it in the early 60s
Well Bertie was no Einstein
Yes if there’s an idea and if it’s a good idea someone will invest in you and can pay someone else to engineer it into reality. Dennis O’Brien is a great example he gets ideas and has loads of buddies in politics that will manifest his ideas for him.
imagination = I – eye – magic
Peter Higgs maybe, re modern day Einstein…
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