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The Daily PollTHE MINISTER FOR Higher Education has said “society would be better” with a co-educational model of learning.
In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Minister Patrick O’Donovan said he wants to see an end to single-sex schools, saying “we should be offering incentives and encouragement for education integration”.
He added: “If the first time that you come in contact with somebody from the opposite gender in your education journey is your first day in university at Freshers Week, that to me is absolutely crazy in 2024.”
There are currently 209 single-sex secondary schools in Ireland compared to 511 mixed schools, and 228 single-sex national schools compared to 2,900 that are mixed.
So today we’re asking: Should single-sex schools be phased out?
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But Trump said everything is agreed and North Korea will do as he says
@bmul: say what you like about Trump, but he’s at least tacklibg this major issue rather than ignorning it like Obama did.
@niall: Obama did not ignore it but neither was he suckered in and fooled
@niall: Trump has been played for a fool, which is exactly what he is.
..Whats tacklibg and ignorning ?
@niall: Yeah but then there is the difference between achieving a positive result through tackling something the right way vs tackling it the wrong way and breaking your neck. Metaphorically speaking.
@niall: Even if both countries came to agreement… Chances one or both leaders would renege on it first chance they get..like a gold fish last 15 seconds is all they can remember
@Pearse Mc Mullen: It’s when you mean to say ‘tackling’ and ‘ignoring’ but your hands are too tiny to use the keyboard properly. Rather like how ‘coverage’ gets rendered ‘covfefe’.
@niall: Not allowing yourself to get fleeced like a toothless hyena =/= ‘ignorning’ the issue
@niall: What major issue? His own arsenal of nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons in the hands of this fascist is more dangerous than any N. korea or Iran issue
@niall: I totally agree with you lad
@bmul: You could say ‘they would say that wouldn’t they’. The fact is that it is two sides of the same coin.
It’s a strange world when I believe N. Korea
@Dave Thomas: Trump the self proclaimed bestest negotiator! He hasn’t a clue and appears never to have told a truth.
Trump being played like the trumpet he is.
Trump 2020
@Tod Curtis: perhaps but, even if so, his eyesight is the only part of him working at full capacity
@Graham: it’s easily known you don’t swallow
@Tod Curtis: it’s easily known you haven’ t got 20/20 vision……
@Pearse Mc Mullen: no need for name calling pearse now go back under that rock you came from
@Tod Curtis: wipe your glasses lad, i didn’t call you any names.
@Pearse Mc Mullen:
I think Tod was on the sauce
Trump thinks he can bully countries all around the world, and leader will acquiesce , He has threatened to cut Irans oil output to zero, has told OPEC to increase production by 2 million bpd,Not realising that Iran are one of the founding members of OPEC. The ignorant orange fool doesn`t understand politics on the world stage.
Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz if need be.
North Korea basically diplomatically told him to take a running jump today, China are entering a trade war against him, and the rest of the world are getting totally sick of the US bully boy tactics.
They will soon become an outcast nation, and all while their infrastructure crumbles .
@Pearse Mc Mullen: but they got a tax refund , that they and there kids will have to pay for
@Pearse Mc Mullen: never a truer word spoken. I’m counting the days till I can escape this mess I emigrated to. This country is full of people who are jumping at the chance to cut off their nose despite their face. It’s sad to see so much potential wasted.
@bmul: 16,000 complaints to the city authorities in San Francisco so fer this year about Human waste on the streets from all the homeless,
There is a photo of a clear plastic bag weight 20lb on the corner of a street downtown,
thousands of people are stepping in excrement everywhere, the streets are littered with human waste, rubbish and syringes, I genuinely never seen anything like it before in my life,
So much for a first world nation ,
Land of the free………..
@darrenphughes: My Brother lives in Alaska, he has just bought property in Oregon,
I have told him to sell it and stay put in Alaska, much much safer up there
@Pearse Mc Mullen:
I can’t wait till America crumbles and gets destroyed they need taking down a peg or 2 the Americans. They reap what they sow.
So the country with the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world and the most unstable president in the world dictating to N.Korea and Iran that they can’t have nuclear weapons. N. Korea or Iran haven’t proven they would use them, they might I don’t know. But the US is the only country that has proven it would because it already has, TWICE…. The arrogance of those warmongers in the white house
Complaints soar as San Francisco drowns in human waste
As of Thursday, there have been 16,022 complaints made about ‘feces,’ and thousands of others made using words like ‘sh*t’, ‘poop’ and ‘excrement’, to San Francisco’s municipal authorities.
“Human feces still not cleaned up despite multiple complaints. How many weeks will pass?” reads one complaint lodged Wednesday.
“Bodily fluids and feces down the whole street, garbage, cloths, food thrown all over sidewalk,” reads another.
“Homeless encampment is blocking sidewalk and creates a health hazard w trash and feces. Please move them, and send a cleaning crew. Sidewalk is impassable, forcing pedestrians into the street,” reported one user,
@Pearse Mc Mullen: Actually you are making an argument for Trump, SF is run by Democrats. Conservatives point to this (+California etc) of what it’s like when they take control.
@Niamh Breslin: you`re right Niamh, Trump will probably intern all the homeless people if he gets his way
@Pearse Mc Mullen: Alaska is a Red State, where you said your brother was safer
@Niamh Breslin: and who sets their budget?
@Niamh Breslin: Alaska has a population of less than 750,000, it`s area is bigger than Texas, California and Montana put together, it also has the whole of Canada between it and the rest of the US, therefore it is much, much safer…
Hope that clears it up for you Niamh :-)
@Pearse Mc Mullen: I can Google myself thanks. I personally have no opinion about who is President of the US, that’s up to them to decide but we do only receive one side of the partisan divide by MSM constantly (which is why no one could guess he was to be elected, and Brexit). Your pointing to SF as an example of the Republican position that needs to be fixed and the success of Red States v Blue States, I just stated facts.
The endless outrage and anger which our press mirrors from one side actually is causing the Democrats to lose support, there was a 10% rise in support for him from Hispanics despite the immigration position. He will win again at this rate as empathy is drained from the population with constant hyperbolic coverage.
@Niamh Breslin: your use of the tired phrase MSM shows you for the Trump advocate that you are
@Niamh Breslin: you might only receive one side of the news, more fool you, i on the other hand tend to broaden my horizons when it comes to reading the news, it’ s not my fault you haven’ t got a clue what is going on in the world around you, that is entirely your own.
Read, educate yourself, get your head out of the sand.
@Pearse Mc Mullen: If you have to resort to personal remarks instead of having a discussion about an issue that speaks for itself
@Niamh Breslin: there are no personal remarks, YOU said you only receive one side of the news, i simply stated that was your own fault and no one elses, it is not my fault you don’ t read more than the MSM, it is yours, if you want to take it as a personal insult, that’s fine by me, if that’s your default setting to accuse someone of personal insults, there is nothing i can do about it. No skin off my nose if you don’ t want to discuss, have a good night.
@Niamh Breslin:
Yeah the 10% rise says it all, they’re all bananas!
@Bryan Smyth: 10% of F all is still F all.
Trump was outmanovered, you would not have to be an Einstein to do that, lol
Absolute bull from the Americans. They are being given the run around
They’re really not on the same wavelength..
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