Time for healing in our country

Sunny Disposition

It has been a tough few years. Covid saw us lose many people, saw isolation become a greater problem than ever, it was a generational trauma for society. Then the housing crisis, and the RTE controversy that saw Ryan Tubridy leave.

Would it be a good idea for the Government to announce a wellness day, essentially a one off Bank Holiday, and heavily promote social (non-alcohol related) events as well as meditation and visualisation? I think we all need it.

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058314280/time-for-healing-in-our-country

What would we call the day ?

tayto lover

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121127242#Comment_121127242

Party Day.

YellowLead

We’ve already been given an extra bank holiday

Jim_Hodge

I can't see that achieving anything to be honest. Just basically another public holiday. That won't heal anything for anybody. In addition, the ills you described don't affect everybody or even does so equally for those who are affected. Many have rebounded from covid. The cost of living affects all but to very different extents. Mediation is an anathema to many.

Personally, I don't need it, thanks.

TinyMuffin

Do away with the USC.

That’ll improve a lot of people’s wellness.

SuperBowserWorld

I wouldn't include RT(E) in that list. That's an RTE generated clickbait storm in a teacup.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121127327#Comment_121127327

I agree, but the USC won’t be done away with I don’t think. I’d say that’s a permanent tax.

you might have a government reduce it or change its banding but I’d be flabbergasted if in my lifetime the USC is abolished 100% and politicians have alluded to that.

id say whatever government party who would reduce or in time do abolish it would get a seriously positive response from the electorate. For quite a time.

the USC however generates just over 5 billion for the Irish economy per annum and I guess with the manner in which money is being thrown around to fix the world’s problems as well as supposedly our own… it’s here to stay…

the USC was implemented in 2010… 13 years ago. So already it’s a ‘long term’ measure… and many politicians using more or less slight of word to indicate it’s here to stay…

XsApollo

Another free day? Typical

how about a day where all the scobes, dirt bags and people who just bleed the country for all they can , come together for one day a year and do something meaningful? Like pick rubbish for the day or cut the grass and tidy up around the place.

I know that would cheer me up and probably everybody else that contributes .

Peter Flynt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121127410#Comment_121127410

You couldn't expect members of FF and FG to pick up rubbish?

Leg End Reject

I genuinely don't know anyone still affected by Covid, life has returned to normal.

con747

OP if you want a day off get on to HR and explain your position, non alcohol related of course.

Dial Hard

A national day of healing to get over Tubs getting the sack 🤣🤣🤣

Mrs OBumble

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058314280/time-for-healing-in-our-country

No need to wait for nanny-state to lead the way.

You're an employer: give your employees a wellness day. Lobby your fellow employer-association (for whatever industry you're in) to do the same.

Sunny Disposition

I introduced wellness days last year, I think it is good for people, especially now. You need to promote it a bit though.

fritzelly

How the hell can you lump RT being given the boot in with all that other stuff - were you banned from the other thread?

Anyway we already got St. Brigid's Day

Mad Benny

I propose April 1st

cj maxx

A national day of ‘healing’ is imo the very last thing the country needs .

pappyodaniel

You mention Tubridy leaving like it was a bad thing?

endacl

“Wellness” 🖕

Willya fcuk off with that shyte.

The DayDream

A moment of silence for the TV licence.

Fkin gas.

StevenToast

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128153#Comment_121128153

A national day of celebration to see the back of that prìck.....

mazdamiatamx5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121127410#Comment_121127410

You mean the bankers and politicians? But of course you don't mean that, do you, you're only interested in easy targets.

XsApollo

You can throw the bankers and politicians in too , fine by me, all the criminals too,

plenty of people who work in banks are decent people too you know? Or you just mean the ones at the top?

all the groups will do, criminals , politicians, senior bankers, scumbags, travellers, , all the drains on society,

did I miss anybody ? Throw them in too.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128196#Comment_121128196

Introduced them where? Wtf is wellness anyway? It all sounds a bit new age wishy washy vagueness.

munchkin_utd

you could call it Tony day but in the spirit of it, you arent allowed to visit your parents or travel abroad on this day off

TedBundysDriver

"Wellness day" 🙄

How about a "harden the fcuk up day" op

denismc

We all need healing after listening to Tubridy for so long.

anonymouscactus

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128448#Comment_121128448

You forgot the Capricorns! Can't stand those feckers - they have the wordled ruinded.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128196#Comment_121128196

I know where I'd tell you to shove it if you promoted it near me. 'Wellness' is all airy fairy nonsense. Toughen up and get on with things. Even linking Covid and RTE shows how removed from real life some people can be.

Greyfox

A silly idea but sure I wouldn't say no to another day off

dxhound2005

Would it be of a Monday?

Photobox

I would just love to have one balanced media day, just one day and I would feel all the well being and zen that one should feel instead of feeling my blood pressure raised every day.

YellowLead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129299#Comment_121129299

You don’t have to engage with media material if you don’t want to :)

Bass Reeves

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058314280/time-for-healing-in-our-country

We got it last and the year OP it was the day after St Patrick's day. It being added as an annual holiday on St Brigit's day it is more or less National women's day now.

I see we are getting more and more fragile all the time. I suggest you go for a therapy session with your Counsellor as you seem to need a bit of perking up.

Photobox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129379#Comment_121129379

That's true and Im trying to avoid nowadays for my own personal well being

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129419#Comment_121129419

There's an element of burying your head in the sand there. Sh1t happens, world events happen, and the media can't fabricate the 'zen' you're looking for.

taxAHcruel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128516#Comment_121128516

Agree to a point. "Wellness" is one of those words like "Sport" that includes so many things that it becomes essentially meaningless. I mean "Sport" includes everything from MMA combat to lawn bowling. Two things that have pretty much nothing except for breathing in common.

Similarly "Wellness" can mean anything from a good diet and a meditation practice - to all kinds of airy fairy woo and crystals.

Throw in words like "holistic healing" and it just gets worse. "Holistic" just being a fancy smancy word for simply saying that you focus on every aspect of your well being rather than simply focusing on one single thing like diet.

Certainly do not see much point in a single day off for any of the good "Wellness" things. Most of the things that will benefit your overall well being are things you would really want to be doing daily for years. Not taking a single day off to sit around and holistically say "oommmmm" in a cross legged position with a tofu falafel wrap in one hand.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129419#Comment_121129419

I've basically realized that if there is any news worth knowing someone will tell me about it. Or someone on the many podcasts I listen to while running/training/etc will be discussing it. Or a cursory glance over the thread titles in the Boards "Current Affairs" forum tend to give me a general overview of what's going on.

So best to stay away from specifically news shows and media really which as you say tend to be rather biased. Especially if you consume any american news media which seem to be entertainment shows posing as news media rather than specifically news shows.

Photobox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129434#Comment_121129434

I was talking more about opinion pieces reflecting balance more than not wanting to hear bad news. But I take your point.

T-Maxx

https://youtu.be/rjlSiASsUIs?si=GWUfg1MzCbQmbS8T

Immediately thought of this...

timmyntc

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129434#Comment_121129434

Ah now the media are well known for picking the negative slant and selecting negative scary stories - their whole thing is bad news all the time because bad news (and fear) sells papers and gets clicks.

Sunny Disposition

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128454#Comment_121128454

In my company. It's a bit hard to define of course, but I think it's a feeling of mental and physical health.

Sunny Disposition

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128686#Comment_121128686

I actually think a midweek day would be best for this, don't want it just to be another day off, it should be meaningful and positive.

dxhound2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121133889#Comment_121133889

That's good because most of the Civil Service take Mondays off anyway. For a bit of healing.

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121128401#Comment_121128401

I don't see too many bankers or politicians inflicting life changing injuries on the unfortunate tourists down in Temple Bar - who we rely on to bring money and jobs into the country.

Everlong1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121134183#Comment_121134183

I can't wait to see your evidence for this.

Tombo2001

This is a country that has had famine, civil war, occupation by a foreign power, mass emigration, institutional abuse, church oppression to name but a few.

And OP - you are saying its been a tough couple of years because......of Ryan Tubridy leaving RTE? Ah really.....

Sunny Disposition

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121134353#Comment_121134353

Ah no, a tough few years because of the pandemic more than anything, that was very tough for people. Obviously Ryan going was unfortunate, but not as serious obviously, thousands of people were killed by Covid.

dxhound2005

As has been pointed out already, we got a day off for Covid recognition. You can use the new Bank Holiday for healing. Let other people do what they want.

Government agrees Covid Recognition Payment and New Public Holiday

From Department of the Taoiseach 

Published on 19 January 2022

Last updated on 20 January 2022

 

• once-off public holiday on Friday 18 March this year, followed by Day of Remembrance and Recognition
• new recurring St. Brigid’s Day public holiday
• €1,000 tax-free recognition payment

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129848#Comment_121129848

National Sex Day 👍️

taxAHcruel

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121134594#Comment_121134594

Every day is sex day! I could do with a no sex day every so often :)