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    #5042
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    A suspected drunk driver caused a crash up near McDonalds earlier today. They apparently then drove away from the scene and managed to crash further down the road, near the hospital! Gardaí arrested them.
    I think the car they crashed into had to have the occupants cut out of the car. Hopefully no one seriously injured.

    Good grief. I was down there with my son this morning. We got a takeaway which was the only choice but we planned on nothing else.


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    #5043
    expatin africa
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭expatin africa


    Hi is there any pass photos booths in tralee need a passport photo


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    #5044
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,331 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    expatin africa wrote: »
    Hi is there any pass photos booths in tralee need a passport photo

    There's one in the lobby of Manor shopping centre. The centre is open by all accounts.

    You can renew your passport online though and take the photo yourself (going by their guidelines).


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    #5045
    jousting with chairs
    Registered Users Posts: 929 ✭✭✭jousting with chairs


    The main PO has one that the passport office can download your photo from.

    I had my new passport in 3 days after doing it online.


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    #5046
    Adiboo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    jousting with chairs wrote: »
    The main PO has one that the passport office can download your photo from.

    I had my new passport in 3 days after doing it online.

    I can't seem to remember it being there recently, I was going to use it but was not there last year.


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    #5047
    jousting with chairs
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    Adiboo wrote: »
    I can't seem to remember it being there recently, I was going to use it but was not there last year.

    That's a pity, it was a very handy service.


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    #5048
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,331 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    6 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Kerry!


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    #5049
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    6 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Kerry!


    I suspect we will see a bunch more announced tomorrow. My mate almost certainly has it (Wife of one of his colleagues tested positive and passed it around his work) and was over for testing in the new test center in the south campus yesterday.


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    #5050
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,331 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    oeb wrote: »
    I suspect we will see a bunch more announced tomorrow. My mate almost certainly has it (Wife of one of his colleagues tested positive and passed it around his work) and was over for testing in the new test center in the south campus yesterday.

    Wow, that's scary. Hopefully its negative and if not I hope he's ok and recovers well.


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    #5051
    Rows Grower
    Registered Users Posts: 7,892 ✭✭✭Rows Grower


    I was told last week that a Dr. was one of the first in Kerry to be confirmed with it, he's not based in Tralee.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #5052
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,331 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Rows Grower wrote: »
    I was told last week that a Dr. was one of the first in Kerry to be confirmed with it, he's not based in Tralee.

    There was someone in Kenmare who was tested positive with it, they were one of the first in Kerry, maybe the same person. I think they were treated in a Cork hospital though.


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    #5053
    Adiboo
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    oeb wrote: »
    testing in the new test center in the south campus yesterday.

    Didn't know that, live practically nextdoor.


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    #5054
    Rows Grower
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    Ciarrai76 wrote: »
    There was someone in Kenmare who was tested positive with it, they were one of the first in Kerry, maybe the same person. I think they were treated in a Cork hospital though.

    Yeah, that's the same person I'd say.

    "Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."

    Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.



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    #5055
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Adiboo wrote: »
    Didn't know that, live practically nextdoor.


    Mate was saying it's all done very sensibly.


    Pull up in your car, phone them to tell you when you are outside. They call you when it's time to come in and all other people getting tested are not around. Everyone masked up etc, they swab you and you clear off.



    Of course, big issue with this setup is people from Killarney, with fevers and breathing difficulties having to drive over to Tralee themselves. Mate could not risk letting someone else drive them as they would get infected too. Lives alone, has elderly parents, etc.


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    #5056
    Sardonicat
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    Serious question. What if you don't drive or have a car!?


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    #5057
    keane2097
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    Ambulance


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    #5058
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Serious question. What if you don't drive or have a car!?


    Not a notion, he rang when he started showing symptoms, was told a test would be arranged, heard nothing then for a few days till he got a text yesterday morning telling him his appointment was in Tralee at 14:10. Got about two and a half hours notice.


    It sucks, but I dunno what else they can do, Kerry is pretty spread out.


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    #5059
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,379 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Ambulance

    Really? They send out an ambulance to transport suspected covid cases to a test centre?


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    #5060
    Sardonicat
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    oeb wrote: »
    Not a notion, he rang when he started showing symptoms, was told a test would be arranged, heard nothing then for a few days till he got a text yesterday morning telling him his appointment was in Tralee at 14:10. Got about two and a half hours notice.


    It sucks, but I dunno what else they can do, Kerry is pretty spread out.

    Well, it seems utterly pointless if someone lives a long way off and has no means of getting to the centre without contaminating anyone, doesn't it?


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    #5061
    Adiboo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Really? They send out an ambulance to transport suspected covid cases to a test centre?

    That has been the case up until very recently anyway.


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    #5062
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,379 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Adiboo wrote: »
    That has been the case up until very recently anyway.

    OK. Maybe that guy should get back on to them.


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    #5063
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Well, it seems utterly pointless if someone lives a long way off and has no means of getting to the centre without contaminating anyone, doesn't it?


    I know before they were setting up the drop in test centres, they were sending people out into peoples houses to conduct the test there. I assume that they would use that approach. It's just two swabs, one in the nose, one in the throat, only takes 5 min.


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    #5064
    keane2097
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Really? They send out an ambulance to transport suspected covid cases to a test centre?

    Really


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    #5065
    Sardonicat
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    oeb wrote: »
    I know before they were setting up the drop in test centres, they were sending people out into peoples houses to conduct the test there. I assume that they would use that approach. It's just two swabs, one in the nose, one in the throat, only takes 5 min.

    I understand that it's a simple test. That is not my point.


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    #5066
    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    I understand that it's a simple test. That is not my point.


    I don't understand what your point is though. You said what happens if someone can't travel to the test center, and I said I assume they send someone out to them, like they were doing before the test centers opened.


    My buddy was able to drive to the test center, as he does have a car, and while he is sick, it was something that made the drive uncomfortable rather than impossible or dangerous.


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    #5067
    Sardonicat
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    oeb wrote: »
    I don't understand what your point is though. You said what happens if someone can't travel to the test center, and I said I assume they send someone out to them, like they were doing before the test centers opened.


    My buddy was able to drive to the test center, as he does have a car, and while he is sick, it was something that made the drive uncomfortable rather than impossible or dangerous.

    You answered my point.


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    #5068
    Panda Killa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,384 ✭✭✭Panda Killa


    Saw today that quite a few bars in town are flouting the closure order.... pretty shít of them and anyone that drinks in these places....should be an immediate license revokable offence.


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    #5069
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,379 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    Saw today that quite a few bars in town are flouting the closure order.... pretty shít of them and anyone that drinks in these places....should be an immediate license revokable offence.

    I despair. This makes me so mad.


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    #5070
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,331 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    Panda Killa wrote: »
    Saw today that quite a few bars in town are flouting the closure order.... pretty shít of them and anyone that drinks in these places....should be an immediate license revokable offence.

    I think if they are caught by the Gardaí, they now have powers to put in an objection to the renewal of their licence.


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    #5071
    Ciarrai76
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 9,331 Mod ✭✭✭✭Ciarrai76


    It looks like there's a new Indian restaurant going into where the one in Edward st has been for the last few years (opposite Post office). Its repainted and opening soon sign in window....although not sure about opening at all at moment (apart from take away). I had wondered if the other place had closed as it didn't look like it had opened I a while.


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