Covid19 Part XIX-25,802 in ROI (1,753 deaths) 5,859 in NI (556 deaths) (21/07)Read OP

Plumbthedepths wrote: »

Do you believe ones personal situation should be used to deflect from one's professional actions?
I feel sympathy for the man and his family but I don't agree his past behaviour should be ignored now in light of wifes illness.

We all sit in judgement on what people say and do even when we know we shouldn't. The better angels among us tell us when that time may be right.

Tony Holohan's personal situation has nothing to do with Covid -19 maybe it's not for this thread?

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Its a bit insensitive asking if Emma Mhic Mhathuna is allowed say anything now

Just when you think they cant get any lower.

Westernyelp wrote: »

Tony Holohan's personal situation has nothing to do with Covid -19 maybe it's not for this thread?

Well it's relevant in the sense that he's stepping back because of it.

Is there temperature check setups at our airports right now as a matter of interest?

Spencer Brown wrote: »

Five people who contracted Covid-19 abroad died after they came back to Ireland

Yeah and 1733 people died of it without ever leaving the country.

Wasn't the first case here from travel also

The UK is scrapping quarantine, now to see how we react as the CTA and UK quarantine was used by Ireland as a reason not to sign up to the EU travel agreement
https://news.sky.com/story/englands-travel-quarantine-to-be-scrapped-for-trips-from-spain-france-italy-and-germany-12020008

stephenjmcd wrote: »

The UK is scrapping quarantine, now to see how we react as the CTA and UK quarantine was used by Ireland as a reason not to sign up to the EU travel agreement
https://news.sky.com/story/englands-travel-quarantine-to-be-scrapped-for-trips-from-spain-france-italy-and-germany-12020008

And they are opening up to 90 countrys potentially

Nick Cordero’s wife says he may need a double lung transplant

I can't really add a whole pile more of worth to say about Tony Holohan after what some people have already said.

But, here goes...

It boggles my mind that he was front and center day after day up to this point, with all that was going on behind the scenes. The job he has done has been pretty incredible. I'd say I have watched about 85% of the daily briefings and he's always been consistently clear and unfailingly patient, unflappable and courteous. He even kept his cool when the infamous Jemina Burke had a psychotic episode, accusing him of all sorts.

The "tyrant" I kept reading about here beared no resembalance to the reasonable, cautious and often reassuring man that sat in front of the media for the guts of an hour every afternoon.

He's taken some amount of flack, a lot of it totally unjustified and shockingly, knowingly, uninformed. And he was a handy figurehead for the government at times, to hide behind him as a fall guy for unpalatable decisions - while they, seemingly as time went on, renaged on decision making, being more preoccupied with courtship and the odd handy PR win.

Anyway. The situation with tourists from the UK and The US is a potential time bomb waiting to explode. It doesn't bode well that the powers that be seem more preoccupied with a furore about Junior Ministries. Remember Fianna Fáil guys?
A few different faces, but still the same self obsessions. Gombeenism is in their DNA.

I wonder how things are going to play out with pubs. So far the vintners of the country - those well known sticklers for rules - seem pretty happy to let people sit and get tanked in their establishments for well, well past those limits they swore blind that they'd be sticking to religiously.