Holiday home owners in Connemara (and elsewhere)

Covid19

On the Connemara Notices Facebook page, a post attributed to a local doctor states the following:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/332413683476478?view=permalink&id=3143694139015071

Here is the text from the Post. Lovely people altogether. Plus, hardly language and sentiment becoming of a Doctor given the current crisis.

From a local Dr in Connemara

To all the holiday homes owners who came down to Connemara during these hard times: we will remember you. You have increased the pressure on the food supply, the medical teams already overstretched, the staff in the shops and petrol stations. You have contributed to spread the pandemic to a rural area disregarding the rules. We know who you are and you will be named and blamed. We will not forget. You are the rich and privileged who think they can do as they please. As a doctor and member of this community I know how to recognize a psychopathic behavior : you have no empathy, no courage, no respect for the people of Connemara, and our environment that you treat like a playground.
You have invaded the beaches and roads with your big SUV’s disregarding the recommendations.
I don’t think you can feel shame but I feel you will not be made welcome anymore and watch out for the future .
Dr Sophie Faherty


Sweet Jesus.

The doctor is dead right.
Why would they be down there when we are supposed to stay at home?

Foweva Awone

To be honest I absolutely see where they're coming from. Makes total sense.

Ronan|Raven

She's not wrong.

KathleenGrant

Covid19 wrote: »

On the Connemara Notices Facebook page, a post attributed to a local doctor states the following:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/340895652615207?view=permalink&id=2977656432272436

Here is the text from the Post. Lovely people altogether. Plus, hardly language and sentiment becoming of a Doctor given the current crisis.

From a local Dr in Connemara

To all the holiday homes owners who came down to Connemara during these hard times: we will remember you. You have increased the pressure on the food supply, the medical teams already overstretched, the staff in the shops and petrol stations. You have contributed to spread the pandemic to a rural area disregarding the rules. We know who you are and you will be named and blamed. We will not forget. You are the rich and privileged who think they can do as they please. As a doctor and member of this community I know how to recognize a psychopathic behavior : you have no empathy, no courage, no respect for the people of Connemara, and our environment that you treat like a playground.
You have invaded the beaches and roads with your big SUV’s disregarding the recommendations.
I don’t think you can feel shame but I feel you will not be made welcome anymore and watch out for the future .
Dr Sophie Faherty


Sweet Jesus.

Who is more under pressure and worried than a medical practitioner. Language and sentiment shows anger and worry and that is what she feels

fobster

Too bloody right. Stay at home, this is not a holiday, repeat this is not a holiday.

Rows Grower

Fair play Sophie.

Plumbthedepths

Whatever about the language she is a 100% right.
In Italy when the shutdown in Lombardy was announced those that could afford to fecked off down
South bringing the virus with them area of Italy that is seriously disadvantaged compared to the North.
The majority of cases of Covid in Ireland are in the East ie Dublin. Pissing off down the country to infect the locals is incredibly selfish and deserves to be called out.

fly_agaric

Covid19 wrote: »

On the Connemara Notices Facebook page, a post attributed to a local doctor states the following:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/340895652615207?view=permalink&id=2977656432272436

Here is the text from the Post. Lovely people altogether. Plus, hardly language and sentiment becoming of a Doctor given the current crisis.

From a local Dr in Connemara

To all the holiday homes owners who came down to Connemara during these hard times: we will remember you. You have increased the pressure on the food supply, the medical teams already overstretched, the staff in the shops and petrol stations. You have contributed to spread the pandemic to a rural area disregarding the rules. We know who you are and you will be named and blamed. We will not forget. You are the rich and privileged who think they can do as they please. As a doctor and member of this community I know how to recognize a psychopathic behavior : you have no empathy, no courage, no respect for the people of Connemara, and our environment that you treat like a playground.
You have invaded the beaches and roads with your big SUV’s disregarding the recommendations.
I don’t think you can feel shame but I feel you will not be made welcome anymore and watch out for the future .
Dr Sophie Faherty


Sweet Jesus.

Speaking as a Dub who is sensitive enough to the unfair abuse heaped on us at times from outside the pale...there is a reasonable point there.

Travelling down to the holiday home to sit out the pandemic in nice, rural surroundings (because the city is a bit more uncomfortable to live in right now) is flouting the restrictions. It is potentially spreading the virus/putting more people at risk for completely selfish reasons is it not?

KathleenGrant

I'd go so far as to say Dubs are not wanted anywhere else either...

PopePalpatine

Feck you OP for clickbaiting us!

Yellow_Fern

bubblypop wrote: »

The doctor is dead right.
Why would they be down there when we are supposed to stay at home?

Dead right. Should be applied all year round.

Rows Grower

KathleenGrant wrote: »

I'd go so far as to say Dubs are not wanted anywhere else either...

You took the words out of my mouth Kathleen.

Atlantic Dawn

Where does she mention Dubs?

Be right back

Can't see anything wrong with what she posted..

amdublin

I think her wording is a bit OTT but I think her message is spot on. I think she could have got the message across in exactly the same way and with the same if not more impact with a better crafting. i.e. her message is getting a little lost because people are getting het up with her wording

Bottom line though. I think she is RIGHT

Yellow_Fern

fly_agaric wrote: »

Speaking as a Dub who is sensitive enough to the unfair abuse heaped on us at times from outside the pale...there is a reasonable point there.

Travelling down to the holiday home to sit out the pandemic in nice, rural surroundings (because the city is a bit more uncomfortable to live in right now) is flouting the restrictions. It is potentially spreading the virus/putting more people at risk for completely selfish reasons is it not?

It is not flouting the regulations but it is annoying covid or no covid.

Casey78

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Where does she mention Dubs?

Maybe the OP thinks the only people who can afford Holiday homes and SUVs are Dubs?

fuilnaheireann

KathleenGrant wrote: »

I'd go so far as to say Dubs are not wanted anywhere else either...

We'll cut the funding to the muck savages and see how long they survive.

KathleenGrant

fuilnaheireann wrote: »

We'll cut the funding to the muck savages and see how long they survive.

Yeah cos nobody in rural Ireland earns their keep.

Casey78

fuilnaheireann wrote: »

We'll cut the funding to the muck savages and see how long they survive.

The Dubs fund the entire country?
How so?

Rows Grower

fuilnaheireann wrote: »

We'll cut the funding to the muck savages and see how long they survive.

Try ateing your cheque book while we feast on home grown veg and organically reared meat.

Seamai

She's probably not wrong though she didn't word it very well. I have no doubt that there will be people from built up areas heading off down to their holiday homes on the west coast this Easter weekend regardless of the COVID-19 restrictions. It needs to be driven home in the next few days that this is not acceptable.

To any of you an here who attempt it, I hope it pisses non stop.

Harry Palmr

Yellow_Fern wrote: »

It is not flouting the regulations but it is annoying covid or no covid.

Course it is, travelling for non essential matters is verboten.

Anyone who parks up at a holiday home should be clamped.

fly_agaric

Yellow_Fern wrote: »

It is not flouting the regulations but it is annoying covid or no covid.

Could you explain?

My understanding is we are supposed to leave "home" for (roughly - I know there are other exceptions) shopping, food/medicine, essential work that cannot be done from home, exercise within a 2 km radius.

I don't think intention of this was that first people would travel 300 or so km to the rural "home away from home" they are lucky enough to own first before abiding by restrictions!

BanditLuke

Well done doctor. Some people seem to think they are entitled to be above the rules.

Riesen_Meal

Seamai wrote: »

She's probably not wrong though she didn't word it very well. I have no doubt that there will be people from built up areas heading off down to their holiday homes on the west coast this Easter weekend regardless of the COVID-19 restrictions. It needs to be driven home in the next few days that this is not acceptable.

To any of you an herex who attempt it, I hope it pisses non stop.

What gives you that idea?

The pandemic and Garda checkpoints everywhere will surely put pay to this not happening, and I agree, anyone who thinks it's okay to travel further than they are supposed to is contributing to the problem and spread of the virus...

Always the dubs to blame, very convenient for some, doctors included by the sounds of it...

Sam Hain

fuilnaheireann wrote: »

We'll cut the funding to the muck savages and see how long they survive.

Good one

osarusan

"Dubs not wanted" is an idiotic spin to choose to put on it.

Seamai

It's not just Dubliners and Connemara, plenty of Corkonians have places in west Cork and Kerry, Northerners in Donegal.

This should be nipped in the bud before it gets out of control. You might be able to do it the May weekend but forget about Easter.

flazio

I love showing hard republicans threads like this.
How can we unite the 32 counties when we can't even unite the 26.
Yes, some assholes are fleeing a tough situation but that's why I think the Gardaí should be setting up checkpoints at the toll plazas (obvious slow down spot) and turning cars back who shouldn't be on the motorway.

Ten of Swords

Mod

Thread title changed, now it actually resembles the content and sentiment of the article

jam_mac_jam

Agree with her but watch out for the future is a bit much. It's not the field

Rows Grower

flazio wrote: »

I love showing hard republicans threads like this.
How can we unite the 32 counties when we can't even unite the 26.
Yes, some assholes are fleeing a tough situation but that's why I think the Gardaí should be setting up checkpoints at the toll plazas (obvious slow down spot) and turning cars back who shouldn't be on the motorway.

I concur with the caveat they be positioned at the exit of the toll's, plenty room then to turn the fools around.

ChikiChiki

Gardaí should be running checkpoints on all the motorways in and out of Dublin. Half the population is here ffs. Obviously its where spread is most rampant.

If anything, this epidemic has shown the selfish people's true colours.

Seamai

Fieldog wrote: »

What gives you that idea?

The pandemic and Garda checkpoints everywhere will surely put pay to this not happening, and I agree, anyone who thinks it's okay to travel further than they are supposed to is contributing to the problem and spread of the virus...

Always the dubs to blame, very convenient for some, doctors included by the sounds of it...

I'd say there will be some who will think it would be OK to chance it judging be some of the behaviour we've witnessed over the last few weeks, I hope you're right and there will be Garda checkpoints to deal with this, not just in Dublin but in other urban centres and maybe in parts of the west turning anyone who has been missed back to where they came from.

Nermal

Have to chuckle at a doc ostentatiously accusing other people of being ‘rich and privileged’. What’s the medical term for a chronic lack of self-awareness I wonder?

Rows Grower

Nermal wrote: »

Have to chuckle at a doc ostentatiously accusing other people of being ‘rich and privileged’. What’s the medical term for a chronic lack of self-awareness I wonder?

I think the main lack of self awareness belongs with the people who can't refrain from displaying the vulgarity of their wealth.

martingriff

Yellow_Fern wrote: »

It is not flouting the regulations but it is annoying covid or no covid.

It is really. You are meant to stay within 2KM of your home unless going to shop. Going down to your holiday home is not essential

Calhoun

Crazy people are treating it like a holiday, it shows the disregard they have if they view it as a time to go to the beach. Meanwhile the rest of us sick of the 4 walls we are living in.

However the tone in the post is very sinister and looks like a threat to all tourist or holiday home owners.

saabsaab

fuilnaheireann wrote: »

We'll cut the funding to the muck savages and see how long they survive.

Yes, cut the water, food and electricty to Dublin too.

Plumbthedepths

Nermal wrote: »

Have to chuckle at a doc ostentatiously accusing other people of being ‘rich and privileged’. What’s the medical term for a chronic lack of self-awareness I wonder?

Imagine a doctor being concerned for the health of her community, particularly when a rural community would not have the same access to medical care as city dwellers.
Btw idiotic comment.

Toastytoes

They are also accessing the local playgrounds with their kids which have been closed by the county council and meeting up with people they know from other holiday homes in the area completely disregarding the requirement to not mix with people from outside your household. They have a complete disregard for the locals and their well-being in all of this.

JP Liz V1

martingriff wrote: »

It is really. You are meant to stay within 2KM of your home unless going to shop. Going down to your holiday home is not essential

I have seen a fair few camper vans on the road

Collie D

Genuine? I would have thought that anyone who was intelligent enough to be a doctor wouldn’t use Facebook.

JustAThought

I think the fair doctor is totally right. And it is her health and her families health they are endangering because you can be sure that it is there to her surgery they will trot up with their covid and wheezes and diseases - and she will have to consider treating them. Her, or her fellow rural doctors who also want to go home to their families at night and gave a chance at keeping safe and healthy. Particularly if they are disregarding other rules and putting the whole community at risk. I applaude her post and sentiments entirely. Now if the shopkeepers would refuse to serve non locals - that might solve the problem entirely - but not everyone is as brave and honest as she is.

Dr Sophie Faherty

I've not been to Connemara (nor do I own a holiday home there.. just incase anyone's sharpening their spear!) but on the face of it, I would have assumed that anyone that had a little holiday home stashed away somewhere quiet would be doing everyone a favour by heading off to it, rather than staying at home?

More isolated, more space for your family to get out and about with bumping into hundreds of people, etc?

Based on the replies here, I'm obviously in the minority in thinking this, but what actually is the Doctor (quoted in the OP) trying to say exactly?


This alone:

Dr Sophie Faherty wrote:

We know who you are and you will be named and blamed. We will not forget... you will not be made welcome anymore and watch out for the future.

Should have her struck off the medical register surely? That sounds very much like a threat to people, and how could you trust a doctor to not deliberately give you wrong diagnosis or medicines after writing that about the very population she's supposed to be serving?

ChikiChiki

Collie D wrote: »

Genuine? I would have thought that anyone who was intelligent enough to be a doctor wouldn’t use Facebook.

It can be utilised as a communication tool. Jesus some people are thick.

ForestFire

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Agree with her but watch out for the future is a bit much. It's not the field

But It is the field, or at least if you can actually find it up there!!
(Maybe just across the Mayo boarder, we did look for it once, but they all looked the same!!)

I do get what she is saying, which is basically,

I have a special set of skills,
I know who you are,
And I will find you......,:eek:


but if your a family, say from Galway city center, and some of you family is the the risk category, or your just very risk sensitive, you decide to move to an area when your risk is lowered for you and your family, is there anything really wrong with that?? (let assume you moved just before the fully lock-down or that weekend?)

boege

Did someone in Scotland not lose their job for heading off to a holiday home!:rolleyes:

Itssoeasy

I might not have used such strong language as the good doctor did but you can't really argue the point she is making.