Covid19 Part XVIII-25,473 in ROI(1,736 deaths) 5,760 in NI (551 deaths)(30/06)Read OP

leahyl · 05-06-2020 02:04PM

Lol Irish people are full of sense :pac:

Gael23 · 05-06-2020 02:04PM

I hope this puts Holohan back in his box. He has destroyed this country for years to come and inflicted untold misery on families

dmc17 · 05-06-2020 02:04PM

JP100 wrote: »

Tony not in great form today, just slapped a journalist down curtly telling him schools are not in the hospitality industry!

Some of the questions are daft in fairness

JP100 · 05-06-2020 02:05PM

Gael23 wrote: »

I hope this puts Holohan back in his box. He has destroyed this country for years to come and inflicted untold misery on families

Get up the yard with the hyperbolic nonsense!

wadacrack · 05-06-2020 02:05PM

JP100 wrote: »

Tony not in great form today, just slapped a journalist down curtly telling him schools are not in the hospitality industry!

Don't blame him. He has come under allot of scrutiny lately. Trying to guide a country through a pandemic. Not too long ago he was in hospital probably due to stress.

Kermit.de.frog · 05-06-2020 02:06PM

Meanwhile in Sweden they report 1,056 new cases and 77 new deaths.

No end in sight for them.

Should have acted much more comprehensibly. If they had they would be well on the way out.

is_that_so · 05-06-2020 02:07PM

JP100 wrote: »

Tony not in great form today, just slapped a journalist down curtly telling him schools are not in the hospitality industry!

Think that's true so deserved the slapdown.

Benimar · 05-06-2020 02:07PM

Gael23 wrote: »

I hope this puts Holohan back in his box. He has destroyed this country for years to come and inflicted untold misery on families

What a load of absolute bollox!

ACitizenErased · 05-06-2020 02:08PM

RTE are saying 15 people can meet outdoors yet Leo said it’s only for sporting activities.

JP100 · 05-06-2020 02:08PM

dmc17 wrote: »

Some of the questions are daft in fairness

Yep and now watch the journalistic line begin to shift from not opening up quick enough to opening up too quickly. Anything to whip up the Twitter masses!

xabi · 05-06-2020 02:11PM

Here comes George Lee, he's afraid. FFS, such a pessimist

whisky_galore · 05-06-2020 02:12PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

https://twitter.com/corks96fm/status/1268898792314736641?s=21

Hope organisers get an unwelcome letter in the post with a harp on it.

JP100 · 05-06-2020 02:12PM

wadacrack wrote: »

Don't blame him. He has come under allot of scrutiny lately. Trying to guide a country through a pandemic. Not too long ago he was in hospital probably due to stress.

I'm not blaming him, Tony was spot on and the post was aimed at the journalist trying to tie schools up with the hospitality industry.

LessOutragePlz · 05-06-2020 02:16PM

Kermit.de.frog wrote: »

Meanwhile in Sweden they report 1,056 new cases and 77 new deaths.

No end in sight for them.

Should have acted much more comprehensibly. If they had they would be well on the way out.

Is that you captain hindsight?

Plumbthedepths · 05-06-2020 02:16PM

Gael23 wrote: »

I hope this puts Holohan back in his box. He has destroyed this country for years to come and inflicted untold misery on families

To be fair to Holohan his job was to give public health advice, the government Leo and the lads/lasses decided to accept the advice as gospel and hide behind the experts.

nullObjects · 05-06-2020 02:17PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

RTE are saying 15 people can meet outdoors yet Leo said it’s only for sporting activities.

Yeah I think they've got that wrong, he said it's for exercise / training and there's meant to be no contact

ninebeanrows · 05-06-2020 02:18PM

Leo in fine form today

Boggles · 05-06-2020 02:21PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I’m actually surprised we’re advancing so quickly. Tony must be fully convinced now.

Tony is no fool, there is a reason he spends a large amount of each press conference covering his own arsé.

"We only advise", etc.

The 10 page letter later will be an interesting read.

fritzelly · 05-06-2020 02:22PM

George Lee would drive you to catching it deliberately

Boggles · 05-06-2020 02:23PM

fritzelly wrote: »

George Lee would drive you to catching it deliberately

I had to turn it off when Heather Humphreys started talking, she sounds like a clown fúcking a car alarm.

mr zulu · 05-06-2020 02:24PM

Jesus, feel like taking a prozac after listening to George.

An Ciarraioch · 05-06-2020 02:24PM

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

To be fair to Holohan his job was to give public health advice, the government Leo and the lads/lasses decided to accept the advice as gospel and hide behind the experts.

That, and informed decisions about whether or not to accelerate phases could only be made once the evidence from Phase 1 was clear and unequivocal.

Strazdas · 05-06-2020 02:25PM

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I’m actually surprised we’re advancing so quickly. Tony must be fully convinced now.

The Govt was coming under considerable pressure from numerous sectors. The measures sound eminently sensible.

Shopping centres opening on June 15th and all of tourism and hospitality on June 29th are two biggies, very welcome.

Benimar · 05-06-2020 02:25PM

Boggles wrote: »

Tony is no fool, there is a reason he spends a large amount of each press conference covering his own arsé.

"We only advise", etc.

The 10 page letter later will be an interesting read.

It’s up on Gov.ie. It’s fair to say that Cabinet have gone further than he recommended.

jojofizzio · 05-06-2020 02:26PM

mr zulu wrote: »

Jesus, feel like taking a prozac after listening to George.

I thought journos were supposed to be neutral??
No denying what camp George is in.....:rolleyes:

shinzon · 05-06-2020 02:36PM

Never seen such a total and complete abandonment of an eminently sensible roadmap out of the pandemic then this today, it would have set us up as much as we could to deal with a second wave if it comes much better in the winter.

As had been said before obviously lobby groups have gotten to them and in the end they just said **** it, wonder was this also the price for government formation, open up or we wont go in.

Disappointed in this that they didnt stick to there guns. People are going to lose there **** on Monday they wont know what to queue up for first tbh

Shin

Gregor Samsa · 05-06-2020 02:38PM

jojofizzio wrote: »

I thought journos were supposed to be neutral??
No denying what camp George is in.....:rolleyes:

RTE can’t win, though. Sound negative, they’re pushing an agenda. Sound positive, they’re a Government mouthpiece. Sound neutral, they’re spineless.

iamwhoiam · 05-06-2020 02:39PM

mr zulu wrote: »

Jesus, feel like taking a prozac after listening to George.

Poor George . He must be planning to hide under bed when the kids can play again

Morrison J · 05-06-2020 02:44PM

Any mention of making masks mandatory on public transport? Or are they still plugging the line about the tiny section who are allergic making it impossible despite countless other countries doing it without a problem.

is_that_so · 05-06-2020 02:44PM

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

RTE can’t win, though. Sound negative, they’re pushing an agenda. Sound positive, they’re a Government mouthpiece. Sound neutral, they’re spineless.

TBF much of the "bad" press is the very alarmist George Lee. Really not the right person to have on aspects of this.

Covid19 Part XVIII-25,473 in ROI(1,736 deaths) 5,760 in NI (551 deaths)(30/06)Read OP

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