Clever letter in the Saturday edition of The Irish Times
Sir, – This week I employed AI to choose my horse racing bets for Galway. Strangely, I am happy to report that I lost more money than I usually do.
The world can rest easy knowing that AI is just as stupid as humans. Well, this one human anyway. –Yours, etc,
DAVID CURRAN,
Galway.
US President Donald Trump has sacked the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer.
The reason for her sacking, the president does not believe her latest figures on the latest job figures in the country.
Trump has decided to renovate a ballroom in the White House; the cost of the job is expected to be approximately $200 million.
The US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff on a visit to a feeding station in Gaza on Friday sported a Make America Great Again baseball cap; somewhat insensitive attire in the midst of starving people.
Everything about the Trump administration is Gubu to the power of 100.
Gubu was the term coined by Conor Cruise O'Brien to describe the 'murky nature' of the Haughey government. It is an acronym for grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented.
And Trump is light years in murkiness ahead of Haughey.
In an interesting case at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) Tesco has been ordered to re-employ a worker it sacked last year for calling his manager ‘useless’.
The WRC found the supermarket went over the top in dismissing the employee.
Siptu accused Tesco of ‘circling the wagons’ in response to a legitimate grievance and of subjecting the employee to a 'crude exhibition of power’.
Siptu argued that the man had outstanding legitimate grievances which were being ignored by management.
The WRC directed Tesco to reengage the worker in employment by mid-August this year.
Trauma surgeon Morgan McMonagle spoke last evening on Channel 4 News about the barbarity that is being inflicted on the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israelis. He has been plying his skills in Gaza and spoke about working in survival mode in extremely dangerous situations.
When asked if he will be returning to Gaza, Dr Morgan feels it might be difficult now that he has spoken out opposing the Israeli barbarity.
In the same news there was a report of a 15-year-old boy arriving in London to receive facial surgery. His jaw will have to be completely reconstructed. He is the victim of Israeli bombing.
Earlier on the news there was a report on the damage inflicted on the people of Kiev on Tuesday night.
The barbarous actions of the Russian and Israeli governments must be stopped. The people of these two great nations deserve far better leadership than the horror their current strongmen are inflicting on their neighbours.
On this day, Saturday, August 1, 1980 18 people and over 180 passengers were injured at Buttevant, Co Cork. They were travelling on the 10.00 train from Dublin Heuston to Kent Station Cork.
Due to engineering work taking place at Buttevant station the points had been disconnected from the signal on the main down line.
The train, pulled by 075 GM locomotive, was made up of old timber-framed coaches.
The locomotive driver, Berti Walsh, did everything according to the rule book and at the subsequent State Inquiry gave a great account of himself.
At the time of the accident the railway was in a poor and dangerous state of repair; out-of-date signalling systems, old dilapidated rolling stock and successive governments with little or no interest in the railway.