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IT’S TIME TO get the winter woolies out, with temperatures not rising above 11 degrees this week.
Met Éireann’s outlook makes for chilly reading this Halloween with rain spreading across the country over the coming days.
Today will be dry for the most part, with the exception of showers along eastern counties and some drizzle in the west. Temperatures are not expected to go above 9 degrees across the day.
The forecaster said Wednesday will be slightly warmer with temperatures of between 8 and 10 degrees. However trick or treaters are advised to work rain gear into their costumes as heavy showers are also expected.
Thursday looks set to be a bright fresh day with a good deal of dry weather and some occasional showers along western and northern counties. Temperatures of reaching highs of 7 to 10 degrees.
Friday will begin dry, but becoming wet and windy as heavy rain spreads eastwards and southerly winds strengthen.
Saturday will stay cold and windy with good spells of sunshine, however Sunday will see heavy rain across the country.
If this week’s forecast is anything to go by, our balmy autumnal weather is coming to a close.
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The unions doing a sterling job of absolutely zero, as usual. Union dues paying high wages for those at the top, but little help for the actual membership
The majority of these staff members are on working visas, Indians Turkish, south Americans , These companies treat these staff as despensible zero hour contractors . No rights good luck . Irish government let this happen.
@Big Beats: also they don’t pay any tax here and only moved from US to Ireland head quarters to avoid US taxes and not pay any here. they are generally a terrible company supported by fffg
@Big Beats: There are so many inaccuracies in this comment, it makes my brain hurt!
” … jobs in Ireland being advertised on Accenture’s website.” So it’s either:
1. They want to hire staff at cheaper rates, or
2. Their HR people are clueless.
(And it’s probably both).
@Earth Traveller: 3. They are DIFFERENT JOBS
@Earth Traveller: Or, there are areas within the business that they are cutting while still hiring for other departments. And those impacted by the layoffs can apply for the open roles. Standard enough practice in business.
The next 5 articles are comments closed / including bizarrely an article on Covid – has anybody in the journal got any legitimate reason for closing comments on a COVID article – hmmm how times have changed eh
@Dave Hammond: actually a total of 11 of last 18 journal articles are comments closed – that’s just ridiculously poor – is there any standard or editorial there controlling the flow of articles to be sure at least some are open for comments / the journal is bizarrely bringing on their own decline if they keep closing comments on articles at this level / it’s one of the few unique features they have as an Irish media organisation , kinda idiotic business imo
@Dave Hammond: week said Dave..nobodies allowed to disagree with the articles anymore or point out untruths.. the Harris article is typical… was updated to include an extra paragraph pushing Drews agenda as being in the best public interest… covid is a minefield these days.. the rainbow crossing?? I dunno anymore… sure what else is it…. the journal keeps getting worse and I keep reading the crap on it for some reason..
@Dave Hammond: you know you can post what you want when you want on a multitude of platforms and you’re not limited to the comments section of the journal?
@Anthony Curran: the journal is very popular and influential and when they print an article skewed in one direction in some people’s minds, they should be able to counter the argument or let their opinion be known in the comments section.. after all isn’t that what the comments section is for… asking people to search for other forums that won’t be read by a fraction of the people isnt a great solution ..
@Dave Hammond: why don’t you comment on another news site. Ohhh you can’t. I’m sure we’ll miss you.
@Anthony Curran: Yep I figured that ingenious piece of insight out all by myself – 12 years ago when I originally started posting comments on the Journal -when they didn’t close comment sections for every second or third article – try keep up will you…
Years ago as a grad student, Arthur Anderson now Accenture as a newish company, were doing the milk round recruiting. I asked them what is it they made, they said we make nothing – just money and planning. When all you do is count other people’s money and get well paid for it, we can expect more of these shenanigans.
@The Irish love this shy….: It’s called “Consultancy.” There are many business sectors that don’t “make” anything, e.g. Accountancy, Finance, Law. They provide what’s known as “services.”
@Iano C: Consultancy mehole. To who? Those who have it to waste it? That’s not sustainable. Not much of a service to nearly 1500 dumped workers now is it? And that’s only for the moment. If you work in this job my advice to you is to start retraining.
@The Irish love this shy….: maybe consultancy doesn’t suit you, but it certainly suits a lot of employees and/or contractors who can make a lot of money doing it. Lots of companies pay lots of money for these services. Whether they get value for money is another matter.
@Iano C: haha, on fire tonight
@SYaxJ2Ts: Fire is right. Consultancy on the whole is tech reliant in Ireland. With the exception of Intel which is manufacturing and even that has 133% dip in earnings compared to last year. Intel won’t invest anymore here. Already we’ve lost to other English speaking countries like Germany! Watch this space for your consultancy fatties. If you’re into this polite chatting with excel documents, you and Iano should set up your own firm. Warehousing on the Kylemore Road going cheap. Best of luck.
@The Irish love this shy….: Hmmmm, tech reliant, eh?! PWC, KPMG, Deloitte, and EY might beg to differ.
@SYaxJ2Ts: Not too shabby yourself ;) Yer man’s having a conniption over facts!
@The Irish love this shy….: you asked that question as a grad student?
CN I ask why the journal mods are turning off comments on a lot of posts lately? Absolutely no need for it. I got a comment removed because I said drew Harris should be sacked. As mods and by deleting my comment they are more or less in league of the government. Sorry for of topic comment
@Alan Scott: you don’t have to apologise for being “off topic” anymore – they close so many comments these days you need to speak out wherever ya can imo !
So it turn out letting right wing parties base our entire economy on foreign multinationals isn’t the best idea.
If only we’d had some previous experiences in this regard.
Oh wait, it’s the 1980s all over again.
At least our Green Party – quote unquote – is still able to get us a few dozen jobs guarding servers in the endless new data centres they’re signing off on.
@Chris O’Brien: FDI in Ireland is a huge part of our economy, like it or not. It’s nothing like the 80′s, ya mad yoke!
Jesus, an article that you’re allowed comment on!! Becoming like hens teeth! Lol
@Colette Kearns: hence my comment just above yours. It’s not real journalism. I was of it for a while and came back to see if anything changed, twitter is a much better outlet where government sponsored propaganda and are not penalised when you disagree with them.
@Colette Kearns: it’s beyond comical Collette – for the life Donne I can’t understand the Journal at all these days – literally making their own business less and less engaging which will lead to a decline in revenues and bring on inevitable down turn for their own business – bizarre
Unions…. In Ireland, total waste of time. Apart from the teachers unions, they’ve managed to get their longer standing members a great deal over the years. The nurses union seem an undercover group acting on behalf of the HSE/dept of Health.
@Eddie Garvey: agree in the main but there are plenty of strong unions that have secured good conditions for their members , Irish rail , Dublin bus , RTE , ESB , airline pilots , I’d say the fact we don’t hear too much about them is a sign they have secured good deals and use their leverage accordingly imo
There should be no employment without union membership..bosses will always abuse workers in the past, now and in the future. This is why Trump is the last true Socialist.
People before profit are all talk and band wagon jumpers
@Chief Of police Retired – Truther MAGA Trump 2024: Trump the billionaire 1% who inherited hundreds of millions from Daddy and doesn’t pay his suppliers ….hmm you might want to do a bit of research to educate yourself of the facts mister
@Chief Of police Retired – Truther MAGA Trump 2024: https://www.liunachicago.org/about-us/news/details/2147/anti-union-actions-by-the-trump-administration
Corporations and banks are the enemy of the people. Making the rich richer, while the comman man is fleeced to death, but told we never had it as good.
Stop voting for politicians who support this.
@GoodBrother: Yeah, I agree. Let’s get rid of all the corporations and banks. Back to tilling the land, 16 hours a day, 7 days per week! And storing our money under the mattress. Who do you suggest we vote for to make this utopia you speak of, a reality? It wouldn’t be SF by any chance now, would it?
Challenging and difficult for people, but not for AI. The Unions may actually have a future, but are they able to see it?
I meet coupe of Spanish guys working there on new year’s eve party
“What do You do there”
“watching Netflix”
@transik: Cool story, never happened.
Another multinational on the way out. Nice one ffg,
@calum Tierney: Who do you think brought them here in the first place? FF. And they’re hardly “on the way out.” It’s a percentage of their workforce, not all of it
welcome to America
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