Adding high-fat dairy based foods to your diet may help in lowering the risk of cardiovascular diseases, Swedish eggheads claim
Some boffins have concluded that
A diet which is high in fat
Will help you live long
And if they’re all wrong
I may have to just eat my hat
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Actress Zoë Kravitz heralds the return of ‘derriere fashion’ at the Met Gala
In fashion there are always some
Who wonder what is next to come
Well those in the know
Say what will be on show
This winter is mainly the bum
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American country music singer and songwriter Garth Brooks at Croke Park, Dublin in 2014
Good news now for all who adore
Garth Brooks as three gigs are in store
And just wait and see
There’s a chance that he’ll be
Allowed to stay on for two more
Chinese President Xi Jinping told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday that his country, the world’s largest polluter, “will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.”
As announcement’s go it’s pretty grand:
China’s drawing a line in the sand
No more coal-powered stations
In faraway nations
But plenty back in the homeland
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The US will lift Covid-19 travel restrictions to allow fully vaccinated passengers from most European Union (EU) countries to travel into the country from early November
In news they announced yesterday
We all could soon set on our way
(As long as we’ve been
Dosed up with vaccine)
On vacation in Amerikay
The American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland has told Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe (above) to accept a global corporation tax rate of “at least” 15 per cent
American companies say
That revenue should make them pay
A tiny bit more
If a deal is in store
And not try to go our own way
Japan’s ruling LDP leadership race has opened with four candidates (above), including two women
There’s a race on to find out who can
Become the new boss of Japan
But the LDP
Will probably see
The top job once more go to a man
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was called “that fellow Down Under” by President Joe Biden during an international call
Let’s face it, it doesn’t look great
When you’re working as a head of state
And then, to your shame
Forget someone’s name
And end up just calling them “mate”.
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President Michael D Higgins has declined an invitation to attend a church service with Queen Elizabeth marking Northern Ireland’s centenary
Our President will not be seen
In Church, in Armagh, with the Queen
The real reason why?
The birth of NI
Is something that shouldn’t have been
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s first suggested connecting Stranraer in Scotland to Larne in Northern Ireland by bridge three years ago
Though it sounds daft to you and to me
Johnson wants a road under the sea
But mandarins think
That the submarine link
Is something that won’t come to be
