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CoVid19 Part XIV - 8,089 in ROI (288 deaths) 1,589 in NI (92 deaths) (10/04) Read OP

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  • #5942
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    5 weekends in a row with had storms, and now hardly a drop of rain.

    It will probably be our best summer as well.


  • #5943
    omicron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭omicron


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hope the gaurds keep them out all night and delay them for hours before turning em back

    Some people need to use the roads. I'm a vet and was on the way to calve a cow this afternoon, got stuck at a checkpoint on a main road for 32 minutes, calf was alive when I arrived, took less than 10 minutes to get him out and was dead by then. Choking infrastructure isn't the way to deal with this situation. The road I was on was a dual carriageway with no hard shoulder, if there was an ambulance trying to get through they would have had the same issue.


  • #5944
    Cork Boy 53
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,829 ✭✭✭Cork Boy 53


    declanflynn wrote: »
    We shouldn't have a accepted anything from that tool.
    Where does he pay his taxes
    Say that to a healthcare worker and see what reaction you get.


  • #5945
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    alan partridge aha wrote: »
    I'm going late May/early June.

    I think that too, but as I said, I am pessimistic, so I had to change it to July/Aug :D


  • #5946
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,118 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    theoneeyedman wrote: »
    Gardai caused this tailback, according to yer man on the news. Closed all bar one lane on the road, funnelled 3 lanes into one. What's that about, looking for clicks on the twitter or what?

    What's that about? They have always conducted a checkpoint like that. If they're was no one travelling (like everyone was told) there would be no tail backs.

    Our country is full of the most selfish clowns.


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  • #5947
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    I highly doubt we would have a better health service.
    It would be the opposite of whatever you think!


  • #5948
    fullstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,808 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    theoneeyedman wrote: »
    Gardai caused this tailback, according to yer man on the news. Closed all bar one lane on the road, funnelled 3 lanes into one. What's that about, looking for clicks on the twitter or what?

    Traffic is up 1,000 cars per hour on that road in the last 2 days, most likely with selfish ***** off to their holiday homes.


  • #5949
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Sober Crappy Chemis wrote: »
    And you're such a beacon of altruism, that you wouldn't avoid paying more than you had to?
    Get over it.

    It may seem weird to you, but I am happy to pay my taxes. And it's good to know that, right now, they are being spent on keeping people alive in our hospitals.


  • #5950
    eagle eye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,538 ✭✭✭✭eagle eye


    declanflynn wrote:
    If pricks like him paid their income tax here like the rest of us we would have a better health service!
    Lmfao at you.

    You don't know if he does or doesn't pay tax here. I'm sure even if he is resident in a tax haven he still pays a hell of a lot more tax than you in this state on his business interests here which are quite large.


  • #5951
    podgeandrodge
    Site Banned Posts: 5,975 ✭✭✭podgeandrodge


    podgeandrodge wrote: »
    I'm on the pessimistic side of things when it comes to when the restrictions will be lifted, but I don't think the pubs will stay closed for that long. My guess for what it is worth is July/August, possibly with limitations on numbers per sq m.
    Azatadine wrote: »
    Maybe but social distancing will have to be maintained.

    Yep, agreed, that's what I meant by the limitations on numbers per sq m. There's no way they will be able to facilitate packed pubs in Temple Bar type situation.


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  • #5952
    rm212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭rm212


    omicron wrote: »
    Some people need to use the roads. I'm a vet and was on the way to calve a cow this afternoon, got stuck at a checkpoint on a main road for 32 minutes, calf was alive when I arrived, took less than 10 minutes to get him out and was dead by then. Choking infrastructure isn't the way to deal with this situation. The road I was on was a dual carriageway with no hard shoulder, if there was an ambulance trying to get through they would have had the same issue.

    Of course some people do, but blame the people who shouldn’t be on the roads at all, not the Gardai who have to do their best to show them a lesson and deter them from going out for unnecessary trips


  • #5953
    Pintman Paddy Losty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭Pintman Paddy Losty


    omicron wrote: »
    Some people need to use the roads. I'm a vet and was on the way to calve a cow this afternoon, got stuck at a checkpoint on a main road for 32 minutes, calf was alive when I arrived, took less than 10 minutes to get him out and was dead by then. Choking infrastructure isn't the way to deal with this situation. The road I was on was a dual carriageway with no hard shoulder, if there was an ambulance trying to get through they would have had the same issue.

    My sister is a doctor working in Vincent's. Has the cheek to live is greystones. Had to sit in traffic for an hour after shift. Them people on here saying they hope the guards make them sit there for hours.

    Lots of that traffic looked like vans and trucks to me. I'm sure doing essential deliveries.


  • #5954
    Sober Crappy Chemis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 461 ✭✭Sober Crappy Chemis


    declanflynn wrote: »
    10m is a drop in the ocean compared to the tax he should have paid here, I wouldn't even count him as being Irish

    Look , get over your pride, they have made the donation with or without you r approval .


  • #5955
    Maestro85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 199 ✭✭Maestro85


    I have done too much **** talking about where I work in past threads to say where but I work in a popular tourism site that has been quiet for about a week. Today though.... I see a spike in people coming here, a very noticeable spike, with no social distancing. Gardai getting a lot of abuse at checkpoints. My observations are it is mainly city folk of the family yuppie type orientation. FML I am working this weekend and stressing already.


  • #5956
    Away With The Fairies
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭Away With The Fairies


    declanflynn wrote: »
    It would be the opposite of whatever you think!

    Nice how you're blaming U2 for having a sh!t health service.


  • #5957
    Ace2007
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭Ace2007


    omicron wrote: »
    Some people need to use the roads. I'm a vet and was on the way to calve a cow this afternoon, got stuck at a checkpoint on a main road for 32 minutes, calf was alive when I arrived, took less than 10 minutes to get him out and was dead by then. Choking infrastructure isn't the way to deal with this situation. The road I was on was a dual carriageway with no hard shoulder, if there was an ambulance trying to get through they would have had the same issue.

    You hit the nail on the head with the first word, I would hazard a guess that a big % of people on the roads weren't on essential travel. How do you stop it without checkpoints?


  • #5958
    woohoo!!!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 803 ✭✭✭woohoo!!!


    Gintonious wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/sportsdes/status/1247958225976164352

    What the hell is wrong with people???
    They're selfish pr1cks who only think of themselves. Whether it's Wexford, Kerry, Clare or wherever, I don't think they realise how hostile a reception they're going to get off the locals and local gardai will be only too happy to stick the boot in.


  • #5959
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    deaglan1 wrote: »
    Deaths per 1 M pop. within Europe Only & excluding microstates. Note especially Slovakia - similar size and similar population to Ireland
    Deaths-per-1-M-population.png

    Countries are at different stages, countries have different reporting method and some countries are just more isolated. The true comparison won’t be possible until this is completed. On the masks, it is increasingly obvious the advice on wearing mask up to now was to ensure supply was maintained . If in February governments and who recommended wearing masks hospitals and the general public would have ran out. Now the manufacturing in China is back up this is no longer an issue, therefore advice is starting to change


  • #5960
    rm212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭rm212


    Pintman Paddy Losty wrote: »
    My sister is a doctor working in Vincent's. Has the cheek to live is greystones. Had to sit in traffic for an hour after shift. Them people on here saying they hope the guards make them sit there for hours.

    Lots of that traffic looked like vans and trucks to me. I'm sure doing essential deliveries.

    Look at the video posted that we were talking about. Cars. Cars. More Cars.


  • #5961
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Away With The Fairies wrote: »
    Really? A shortage of PPE and you want to tell them to fcuk with their donation. It's probably not you who needs to wear the PPE anyway.

    Any shortage of PPE has nothing to do with money.


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  • #5962
    easypazz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭easypazz


    polesheep wrote: »
    Is it ok if I don't pay tax next year and instead make a charitable donation of my own choosing to whatever charity I see fit? Would you be ok with that? It's just that I need to let my accountant know in good time.

    U2 pay the tax that they are required to pay. Nothing wrong with that.


  • #5963
    Vivienne23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭Vivienne23


    My guess is things will slowly start to open up after the Tuesday after the May bank hol weekend , first the non essential businesses and by mid June everything will be back open

    Social distancing will remain for a long time after this

    The scariest part is a lot of people will lose the I don’t want to get covid 19 to feck it if I get it I get it

    We need to get Catherine motherway to keep pounding this message home of how serious it is


  • #5964
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The_Kew_Tour wrote: »
    With all English Reg cars coming into Wexford and Waterford and likes for weekend. Say things might be about get worse them better yet.

    Are people seriously coming in on ferries? March to the boat a la lands downs road 1995 in order I think


  • #5965
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    eagle eye wrote: »
    Lmfao at you.

    You don't know if he does or doesn't pay tax here. I'm sure even if he is resident in a tax haven he still pays a hell of a lot more tax than you in this state on his business interests here which are quite large.
    Lmfao
    It's ok as long as toolbox bono is paying more tax than the average person, open your tiny mind man


  • #5966
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hope the gaurds keep them out all night and delay them for hours before turning em back

    What if some of them are nurses or doctors?


  • #5967
    declanflynn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭declanflynn


    easypazz wrote: »
    U2 pay the tax that they are required to pay. Nothing wrong with that.
    where?


  • #5968
    owlbethere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭owlbethere


    BanditLuke wrote: »
    I'm still hearing people say stuff like "I've rearranged my Portuguese holiday to August from June". Utter delusion.

    The penny still hasn't dropped with many.

    I had holidays planned for late autumn but the risk is too much and I won't be going and I don't care about it.

    It's others things that will be lost. Villages and towns deserted. A few cold drinks on a summers evening. Bank holiday weekends turning into quite.


  • #5969
    omicron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭omicron


    Ace2007 wrote: »
    You hit the nail on the head with the first word, I would hazard a guess that a big % of people on the roads weren't on essential travel. How do you stop it without checkpoints?

    You can run the checkpoints more efficiently. Funnelling 2 and 3 lane roads in to one lane and checking one car at a time when there are 4 guards present, and stopping HGVs etc, isn't necessary.


  • #5970
    froog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,784 ✭✭✭froog


    easypazz wrote: »
    U2 pay the tax that they are required to pay. Nothing wrong with that.

    didn't they move their tax base to a haven a few years ago to avoid paying more in ireland after a slight change in the law here? they were heavily criticized for it as i recall.


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  • #5971
    polesheep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,950 ✭✭✭polesheep


    Cork Boy 53 wrote: »
    Say that to a healthcare worker and see what reaction you get.

    I just said it to my wife,a nurse, and she said tell him to feck off and pay his taxes.


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