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HELLO AND WELCOME to TheJournal.ie‘s commuting liveblog.
We’ll be with you until 9am, bringing you all the latest traffic, transport and weather news this morning.
If it’s safe to do so, let us know how the roads are where you are. You can tweet us @thejournal_ie, leave a comment below or send me an email at cliodhna@thejournal.ie
The are frosty conditions across the midlands this morning, particularly around Navan, Naas, Carlow and Kilkenny.
AA Roadwatch is reporting that black ice is possible on roads around Portlaoise.
Motorists are being warned to slow down and leave plenty of time.
In Wicklow, traffic is slow northbound on the N11 Wexford/Dublin Rd from J11 Greystones past J10 Drummin.
In non-commuting news: Gardai are appealing to anyone who was in contact with Dubliner Kenneth O’Brien in the hours before his murder, to come forward.
His body was found in a suitcase in the canal at Ardclough Village, Co Kildare on Saturday.
In Cork, there has been a crash westbound on the N25 Waterford/ Cork Road after the Cobh turn-off. It’s causing delays on approach.
In Dublin, inbound traffic on the Lucan Road is very busy from J3 Lucan through the M50 interchange and on towards Palmerstown.
We’re hearing of two separate breakdowns in Dublin.
A vehicle has broken down on the M1 southbound before J2 at Dublin Airport and is partially blocking the right lane.
There has also been a breakdown on St Johns Road in the lane to turn right at Kilmainham.
In Kildare, it’s busy on the M7 Limerick/ Dublin northbound passing J10 Naas South.
A crash has been reported at the junction of Kill Lane and Abbey Road at Baker’s Corner.
A third breakdown has been reported in Dublin this morning, this time it’s inbound on the N4 Lucan Road.
AA Roadwatch is reporting that it’s busy inbound on the Swords road from Whitehall Church to the Dorset St/Gardiner St Junction.
Here’s how Drumcondra Road is looking this morning:
Traffic is very heavy in some areas of Dublin city this morning. Getting from Phoenix park onto Parkgate street is taking up to 20 minutes and Live Drive says it will then take another 15 minutes to get to Wolfe Tone Quay.
Traffic on Stillorgan Road is also heavy inbound in parts from Kilmacud Road Lower through to Nutley Lane and approaching Donnybrook.
In Cork, the crash on the N25 has now been cleared but delays remain.
In Galway, traffic lights are out of action at the Fairhill Rd/ Father Griffin Rd jct.
Motorists are being advised to take extra care in the area.
In international news, at least 21 people have died in an armed assault in Pakistan.
Witnesses reported two large explosions during the attack on the Bacha Khan university in Charsadda.
In Antrim, the PSNI have just advised motorists that Station Road in Greenisland is now reopened.
It was closed yesterday morning after the body of an elderly man was found in a house on the road. One women and two men were arrested as part of the investigation.
We’re still hearing reports of very heavy traffic on the N11 from UCD right through to Donnybrook.
Meanwhile, the broken down van has been removed from Con Colbert Road in the right turn lane for Kilmainham.
That’s it for this morning. See you back here at 7am tomorrow.
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There’s a lesson that people seem to learn only after they have done their Leaving Cert, which for some reason the students themselves are not informed of. They should be informed as maybe it would save on a lot of the stress, mental health issues and indirect physical health issues.
It’s quite simple. For virtually every course out there in Ireland, that you could possibly desire to do, there is an alternative route into it. Whether it is being a doctor, teacher, lawyer, electrician or personal trainer, you will get there if you want to get there. Getting the points in the Leaving Cert Rat Race is just one method of getting into the course of your choice. It may take longer by another route. But if you want it, it will be way more than worth it.
Problem is it generally takes longer and that avenue isn’t there for all courses. Most students are vaguely aware the alternative route but it isn’t much comfort. the thought of spending a year or more extra getting where you want to go is not much consolation to the majority of 18 year olds.
I totally agree with your comment the points system is a ridiculous method for determining a students academic capabilities. All it is a glorified memory test with a few trick questions. If we relied on a points system 100 years ago to gain entry to colleges. There’d probably be no theory of relativity!! The education system sucks in Ireland it’s designed to demean the lower classes and reward privileged classes. This Richard Murphy is a typical scare mongering idiot most of the comments he’s made are well known facts about how fu€ked the system is. Tell us something new. His suggestions, I’ll take one example, law you’d be better off doing it in the UK anyway much better demand for barristers in London. Also I’d take the Bar in New York or Boston If I was really ambitious as the opportunity in the US is greater in many different legal specialities and you don’t have to wait for someone to die as you do here. Go and have a chat with someone who knows what the fu€k his talking about like down in the law library ie. John Glesson ? or any non disgraced solicitor.
Take a look at this site link below. And pass it on. Did see no mention of it in the article b
http://www.eunicas.ie/index.php/studying-abroad/studying-abroad.html
The CAO is a type of cull system which one would have to admit is like a lottery system gaining a place in college. Students who fail to gain access to a course of there choice possibly end up repeating the leaving cert which is a total waste of time, only possibly becoming more dissolution’d and never going to college at all which is a huge loss to both the people of Ireland and society. What might they have archived. I know too many people where this is the case.
Students need to wake up and relies they are being conned. There first choice should be to go to college abroad in Europe as the access to medicine engineering etc in places like Holland / Germany and other countries where it is taught in English and the entry requirements is more realistic and costs a lot less. Also the qualification often has more value especially engineering degree from a German university.
With the CAO as a second choice maybe colleges here will begin to relies they have a problem which they already have. Check the statistics on attendances in engineering in colleges in Ireland and in other areas. There is a growing shortage of capable skilled people in many areas. We turn out loads of qualified university graduates alright but most are laking something; natural ability! Maybe. There qualified but a lot of them as dumb as fu€k and usually takes four years further training before you could release them on a customer and that’s if they stay with you that long.
Take a look at this site link below. And pass it on. Did see no mention of it in the article by Richard Murphy
Bit late to be worrying now.
Whats do is done.
What’s for you won’t pass you.
Your health is your wealth.
Best of luck to everyone getting their results….
Good luck to the teachers in a sweat this week too ; )
Good luck to my daughter & all of the students getting their results. There is no point in worrying now, what is done is done. It will all come good in the end.
If the press didn’t hype it up as they do the kids would be fine. Leave them alone with your opinions.
Exactly. The writer gives the advice “avoid hype” but the entire article is itself hyping up the LC results, as well as raising the profile of Griffith College at what is a crucial time of the year for its business. Is it my imagination or is coverage of the LC results starting earlier and earlier? I’ve nothing against covering the event once it has occurred but this build-up tells us nothing that we didn’t know.
Good luck to me lol
Look, I did my Leaving Cert year and years ago.I remember being as nervous as hell. Bad stomach etc. Its as big a deal as you want to make it. Now I cant even remember what I passed in, my marks, virtually nothing about it. It didnt help me one bit getting a job as I moved to the UK where I was judged on what I could actually do and not on a piece of paper. In 20 years time you will look back and realise it was not as big a deal as you thought, relax, chill and do your best!
I wouldn’t rely on the courses that CAO dont fill that have places in August and September because they’re usually the same type of course in the back arse of nowhere
Keep out of the black and into the red.
Nothing in this game for two in a bed!
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