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Covid 19 Part XXI-27,908 in ROI (1,777 deaths) 6,647 in NI (559 deaths)(22/08)Read OP

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  • #4982
    Busi_Girl08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,531 ✭✭✭✭Busi_Girl08


    The Unbearables wrote: »
    Totally support the decision on sports if true. Getting the schools open is the priority and anything that helps us reach that goal is welcome.

    How about shutting down the affected plants/factories?


  • #4983
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    They'll have to give a very f*cking good explanation to convince the people if it's true

    There is no good enough explanation


  • #4984
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    The Unbearables wrote: »
    Totally support the decision on sports if true. Getting the schools open is the priority and anything that helps us reach that goal is welcome.

    Do you not get if sports can't happen, pubs can't open, the exact same is true for schools. We're using kids as crash test dummies.
    Should have opened the pubs to experiment.


  • #4985
    wadacrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,172 ✭✭✭wadacrack


    The Unbearables wrote: »
    Totally support the decision on sports if true. Getting the schools open is the priority and anything that helps us reach that goal is welcome.

    But the evidence suggests that it won't help. Its a really bad decision. Repercussions will be seen in a few weeks. Little trust that some may have had in the government will be gone.


  • #4986
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The Unbearables wrote: »
    Totally support the decision on sports if true. Getting the schools open is the priority and anything that helps us reach that goal is welcome.

    Yes, all those cases and clusters linked to matches with less than 200 people at a massive field outdoors are really driving up the cases.

    Its complete Non-science if true. Just folks looking at a list of activities and making random decisions


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  • #4987
    yawhat?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭yawhat?


    KrustyUCC wrote: »
    It's effectively a ban on sports when only teams are able to go

    That will prob be the next thing to go ... no matches whatsoever

    My club has had over 15 championship matches over the last month and not 1 case in the club

    There have been 4 cases in the locality over the last 2 months

    Yet the 50 or so supporters that are allowed at the moment will be banned from supporting the team

    Madness from Micheal Martin and NPHET

    It’s not effectively a ban on sports. I wish people would stop fear mongering and over reacting.


  • #4988
    caveat emptor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,134 ✭✭✭caveat emptor


    redmgar wrote: »
    So what will be the number later? Around a Hundred?

    Given that measures will be announced this evening. I'd say low number today, high number tomorrow to show how prudent they were with the restrictions.


  • #4989
    The HorsesMouth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭The HorsesMouth


    The Unbearables wrote: »
    Totally support the decision on sports if true. Getting the schools open is the priority and anything that helps us reach that goal is welcome.

    So shut down everything apart from schools?
    You would support hairdressers, restaurants and shops being closed then yeah?


  • #4990
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,760 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    yawhat? wrote: »
    It’s not effectively a ban on sports. I wish people would stop fear mongering and over reacting.
    All local GAA and soccer matches will stop if there's no spectators allowed.


  • #4991
    drunkmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,088 ✭✭✭✭drunkmonkey


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    All local GAA and soccer matches will stop if there's no spectators allowed.

    How about kids training? Big numbers at it, we've to fill in a health form every week.


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  • #4992
    normanoffside
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,232 ✭✭✭✭normanoffside


    I have a couple of elderly uncles and their only Bit of normality was to get to see a few GAA matches on recent weekends. What harm is that with only a handful in attendance.
    Ridiculous


  • #4993
    yawhat?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭yawhat?


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    All local GAA and soccer matches will stop if there's no spectators allowed.

    Why?


  • #4994
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    All local GAA and soccer matches will stop if there's no spectators allowed.
    ...why?


  • #4995
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,760 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    yawhat? wrote: »
    Why?
    seamus wrote: »
    ...why?
    You hardly expect 10 year old kids to play without their parents watching? And younger?


  • #4996
    Eod100
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,197 ✭✭✭✭Eod100


    Wonder what's coming down the track with numbers being referred for tests or outbreaks we don't know about if NPHET is recommending these measures?


  • #4997
    yawhat?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭yawhat?


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    You hardly expect 10 year old kids to play without their parents watching? And younger?

    10 year olds don’t account for all local GAA and soccer matches.


  • #4998
    Sofa King Great
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    You hardly expect 10 year old kids to play without their parents watching? And younger?

    Thats hardly "all local GAA and soccer"


  • #4999
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,760 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    yawhat? wrote: »
    10 year olds don’t account for all local GAA and soccer matches.
    Don't be ridiculous. Kids sport is the foundation of local sport.


  • #5000
    Utopia Parkway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,024 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    Fairly mental decision. Hard to fathom. Outbreaks in factories with workers in crap living and working conditions. Result is punish the small handful of people going along to a match outdoors in a ground that is 99% empty anyway.

    The public patience is noticeably fraying lately and It’ll only get worse.


  • #5001
    leahyl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,430 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    normanoffside wrote: »
    I have a couple of elderly uncles and their only Bit of normality was to get to see a few GAA matches on recent weekends. What harm is that with only a handful in attendance.
    Ridiculous

    My dad lives for the GAA, has only started going back to matches in the last month or so...bloody disgrace if they stop them again. He’s 75 and it’s his main social outlet :-(


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  • #5002
    What Username Guidelines
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,139 ✭✭✭What Username Guidelines


    I remember Harris saying these restrictions can't be put on people too long so you have to get the timing right. Everyone was saying "How long can they possible last" and all of a sudden we're 5 months down the road and still under a level of restriction.

    At this stage I'm wondering are the government surprised people are still abiding to distancing and were always just waiting for the public to push back heavily, so it's not their fault, hence the blind eye to meat plants and tourism from abroad, to just banning spectators at sports.


  • #5003
    Benimar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,790 ✭✭✭Benimar


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    All local GAA and soccer matches will stop if there's no spectators allowed.

    No reason why they should. Some of our local soccer clubs were already planning on playing behind closed doors.


  • #5004
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    All local GAA and soccer matches will stop if there's no spectators allowed.

    Nonsense, in fact Leitirm Co Board have already decided to have their cship behind closed doors


  • #5005
    KrustyUCC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,077 ✭✭✭KrustyUCC


    It's going to be a huge problem up to minor

    Parents need to bring kids to matches

    What are they meant to do?

    Go home during the game/training?


  • #5006
    yawhat?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 146 ✭✭yawhat?


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    You hardly expect 10 year old kids to play without their parents watching? And younger?

    Lots of clubs in Dublin have banned non players from their grounds in any event, and kids matches have continued. A complete over reaction or manufactured outrage.


  • #5007
    Ficheall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,038 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    There are an awful lot of things I'd close before outdoor sports with a reasonably sized audience per venue...


  • #5008
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,760 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    yawhat? wrote: »
    Lots of clubs in Dublin have banned non players from their grounds in any event, and kids matches have continued. A complete over reaction or manufactured outrage.


    Telling kids to play without their parents watching is possibly one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.


  • #5009
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    So re GAA we will now have approx 40 players over the course of an hour, running around a field grappling and jostling with each other, roaring and shouting and exhaling droplets, in close proximity will be 7 match officials and on the sidelines between subs and mentors, another 30 or so people yet 100 or so people, easily socially distanced, spread out along the preimeter of the pitch enjoying the fresh air and a social occasion is to be forbidden? Right so. :rolleyes:


  • #5010
    SusanC10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,432 ✭✭✭SusanC10


    If true, I really don't understand this behind closed doors thing for all Matches even juvenile.

    We have been fairly conservative due to having vulnerable family members but both our Kids are back at GAA the last month or so. Both delighted. But we as Parents go to all their games. We are well spaced out too. They will both be very disappointed especially the younger one if we can't see them play.

    I don't get it though at all.


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  • #5011
    Sofa King Great
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Telling kids to play without their parents watching is possibly one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

    Must have changed from when I was young. Half the players didn't have their parents watching


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