Sorry it has been a while since I posted but I have been looking for information to fill my blog with the end of the Irish Presidential election. Michael D Higgins won the election and will be made the president in about 2 weeks time in a ceremony in Dublin Castle. Higgins won just over 40% of first preference votes with Sean Gallagher in second place with just over 20% of the vote. The reason for the sharp increase in Higgins's vote from the previous polls appears to be the Martin McGuinness attack on Gallagher on the Front Line Debate last Monday.
This attack was in relation to Gallagher collecting money in envelopes for the Fianna Fail party while they were in Government. People want to see their President as somebody who had no secrets to hide and I think the Higgins fitted this bill. Following the vote counting Higgins ended up with just over 1 million votes so the mandate from the people is strong and hopefully he will play a major role in making Ireland a better place to live in the first 7 years of his term.
The 7 billionth person living in the world was born today in Australia. The world population is growing at a rate which means that when I was born nearly 47 years ago I was the 3,295,347,831st against the 7 billion now which means the world population have more than doubled in this time. I was also the 77,172,136,406th person born into the world. Use the following link to find your position in the world http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515 .
India is due to take over from China soon as the most populated country in the world, the UK has 246 people per square km against Australia which has just 3 people per square km, for Singapore this is 7,272 people.
I have a lot of space to fill up now that the election is over and as the blog is about Dublin from a Dubliners view I have decided to do some posts about Dublin's in other countries. There are cities, towns, an island and some townlands with Dublin in their name and I will be looking at them over the next few weeks. I have also tried to contact people from these locations to gain a better insight into their lives. I have enjoyed doing the investigation and information gathering so I hope that you find the blogs interesting,
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The 7 billionth person living in the world was born today in Australia. The world population is growing at a rate which means that when I was born nearly 47 years ago I was the 3,295,347,831st against the 7 billion now which means the world population have more than doubled in this time. I was also the 77,172,136,406th person born into the world. Use the following link to find your position in the world http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515 .
India is due to take over from China soon as the most populated country in the world, the UK has 246 people per square km against Australia which has just 3 people per square km, for Singapore this is 7,272 people.
I have a lot of space to fill up now that the election is over and as the blog is about Dublin from a Dubliners view I have decided to do some posts about Dublin's in other countries. There are cities, towns, an island and some townlands with Dublin in their name and I will be looking at them over the next few weeks. I have also tried to contact people from these locations to gain a better insight into their lives. I have enjoyed doing the investigation and information gathering so I hope that you find the blogs interesting,
