Miriam Lord: Our national supercomputer is gone, and the global scientific community is laughing at us

Taoiseach Simon Harris with Minister for Social Protection Heather Humphreys. The Taoiseach was in Limerick on Wednesday attending the funeral of Nellie O’Donovan, mother of Patrick, Minister for Higher Education, and so Ms Humphreys stood in for him for Leaders’ Questions. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish TimesA double dearth of leaders in the Dáil on Wednesday produced a very dull episode of Substitutes’ Questions.

Sinn Féin’s Matt Carthy, the TD for Cavan-Monaghan, kept the Dáil show on the road for his boss with a rare appearance at substitute Leaders’ Questions. He faced Fine Gael deputy leader, Heather Humphreys, who was filling in for Simon Harris. Because Simon Harris allowed poor Kay to expire on his watch, the nation’s boffins are reduced to depending on the kindness of strangers now

Had the Taoiseach been present, Louise would have lambasted him for letting poor Kay go before finding a suitably brilliant supercomputer successor, probably called Elle.Because Simon Harris allowed poor Kay to expire on his watch, the nation’s boffins are reduced to depending on the kindness of strangers now and have to go cap-in-hand to use another country’s number-crunching data monster.

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