1942 BORN: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), heavyweight champion boxer
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| Flat out the Greatest, 1942 |
As a "rule of thumb", a centimeter is about the width of an average adult's little finger.
18:29
Television newsreader drily reading out statistics that explain nothing, change nothing, do nothing. The news team are starting a road-safety campaign on TV. If they don't want people to die drink - driving cars, stop taking advertisments for cars and booze. That's all they can do to help.
18:34
Why do I get the feeling I've seen it before? Wheeling out the same old quadriplegic justifications. The minister trumpets his own success in the face of homicidal automobile impacts.
18:42
I'm an ambulanceman. I have to decide who to treat in a car wreck.
18:43
I'm a fireman. There's an electric current running through the new SUV vehicles that can be dangerous.
18:44
I'm an undertaker. Business is booming.
18:45
I'm a bereaved mother. An off-duty garda from traffic squad killed our son.
18:49
I work for the Government. I blame society.
19:02
I'm a doctor. Young people don't have the maturity of mind, literally, to make the right decisions, until the age of 25. This hospital has got no money to help fix people up since 2002.
19:08
I am a Garda. Yes it's all done with overtime. There's loads of money in overtime.
19:10
I'm an international expert. The key to ze problem is political will. It is vorth investing more money in road safety.
19:12
I'm a politician. You say in your survey 37% of people haven't changed their attitude. Well, the fact of the matter is, 63% have changed their attitude.
19:14
I'm another mother. My daughter was killed by a non-national. Now I have a chip on my shoulder about foreigners.
19:18
I'm from a motoring organisation. The gubblerhnment are only now beginning to implement a safety strategy they published ten years ago.
19:19
I'm from MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). The whole system is against justice for the victims. Two years and a thousand euro fine is not fair for the taking of a life.
19:20
I'm a young person. We're blamed for everything.
19:21
I don't drive. You can't get a taxi in a small town like mine, y'know.
19:22
I'm from RTE. We're feeling pretty smug about ourselves after tonight.
19:26
I'm a cheeky British news reader. As far as we're concerned, Australia is the ol' enemy and they've just hockeyed us in cricket. Before lunch. Bastrids.
