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FF/FG/Green Next Government

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  • #6182
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Any wonder anyone's confused.

    https://twitter.com/KevDoyle_Indo/status/1295780744221143041?s=19


  • #6183
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    McMurphy wrote: »
    Any wonder anyone's confused.

    https://twitter.com/KevDoyle_Indo/status/1295780744221143041?s=19

    Last time I was this confused I thought we had 18 Covid s and their respective cures!

    https://twitter.com/duzBme/status/1295869621615169543?s=19


  • #6184
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    smurgen wrote: »
    Last time I was this confused I thought we had 18 Covid s and their respective cures!

    https://twitter.com/duzBme/status/1295869621615169543?s=19

    18 other Corona Virus is up there with it having to be "a shinner conspiracy" that posters knew the Ceann Comhairle automatically retained his or her seat after a dail term for the brain fart of the year award.

    :pac:


  • #6185
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,208 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    McMurphy wrote: »
    18 other Corona Virus is up there with it having to be "a shinner conspiracy" that posters knew the Ceann Comhairle automatically retained his or her seat after a dail term for the brain fart of the year award.

    :pac:

    Scraping the bottom of the barrel,Randal.


  • #6186
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    No alternatives so lads?

    Another day for the hurlers in the ditch!!!! fantastic!!!


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  • #6187
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Scraping the bottom of the barrel,Randal.


    Have they ever got off the bottom of the barrel?


    Personally I think the poster who spent weeks talking about "vulture funds" to then not even know what they are is better.....next we will start getting told they are "eating popcorn" or that one of them is sitting on a board showing boards to his friends :-( the mind boggles


  • #6188
    Brendan Bendar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,208 ✭✭✭✭Brendan Bendar


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Have they ever got off the bottom of the barrel?


    Personally I think the poster who spent weeks talking about "vulture funds" to then not even know what they are is better.....next we will start getting told they are "eating popcorn" or that one of them is sitting on a board showing boards to his friends :-( the mind boggles

    Which of them is on the early shift this morning Shef.?


  • #6189
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    Brendan Bendar wrote: »
    Which of them is on the early shift this morning Shef.?


    Early to them is 8, I have been up since 6


    It has been quiet today, HQ must not have sent down the new brief for today :p expect it all to kick off soon


  • #6190
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    So we know know we have serious problems in Meat Factory's etc... but they never got a mention in MM press conference.

    One thing il give Leo credit for, He made sure he wasn't up there for that joke yesterday.

    Meat Factory's + Direct Provision X Larry Goodman = Keep your granny at home

    The Govt have lost the people already


  • #6191
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    Early to them is 8, I have been up since 6


    It has been quiet today, HQ must not have sent down the new brief for today :p expect it all to kick off soon

    What's this? The Spindo boardroom? Leo getting fitted for a suit while shouting at Blue Hugh and John Colcannon. Sinister!


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  • #6192
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    smurgen wrote: »
    What's this? The Spindo boardroom? Leo getting fitted for a suit while shouting at Blue Hugh and John Colcannon. Sinister!

    What are you on about, dude? It’s like an attempt was made to put some names and words together in something that looks vaguely like a sentence.


  • #6193
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    So we know know we have serious problems in Meat Factory's etc... but they never got a mention in MM press conference.

    One thing il give Leo credit for, He made sure he wasn't up there for that joke yesterday.

    Meat Factory's + Direct Provision X Larry Goodman = Keep your granny at home

    The Govt have lost the people already

    Not only that but it's totally out of proportion with the infection rates from there. 400-500 cases confirmed out of 1250 from them the last two weeks. The wording is interesting, cannot confirm links with the other cases. Can't confirm lack of links either.

    https://www.thejournal.ie/coronavirus-meat-plants-direct-provision-5179355-Aug2020/?utm_source=shortlink


  • #6194
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    What are you on about, dude? It’s like an attempt was made to put some names and words together in something that looks vaguely like a sentence.

    You sound annoyed. Are you a journalist double jobbing for the strategic communications unit?


  • #6195
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    smurgen wrote: »
    You sound annoyed. Are you a journalist double jobbing for the strategic communications unit?


    What strategic communications unit?? tell us more please


  • #6196
    blanch152
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,195 ✭✭✭✭blanch152


    gifted wrote: »
    The silence from FG ministers tonight is deafening....
    Bowie wrote: »
    They had to call the Education minister in because nobody could reach her. Too busy to discuss going back to school during Covid. Where's Leo when you need someone to speak on another department? :)

    Eh, Minister Foley is a Fianna Fail minister, even when it is a Fianna Fail Minister, some people want to blame Leo!!!!!


  • #6197
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Eh, Minister Foley is a Fianna Fail minister, even when it is a Fianna Fail Minister, some people want to blame Leo!!!!!


    It like they are scrambling in the dark :P


  • #6198
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    What strategic communications unit?? tell us more please

    This one bud.

    https://www.prii.ie/news/2017/october-2017/john-concannon-director-strategic-communications-unit-keynote-speaker-at-priiconf17.html


  • #6199
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    smurgen wrote: »
    This one bud.

    https://www.prii.ie/news/2017/october-2017/john-concannon-director-strategic-communications-unit-keynote-speaker-at-priiconf17.html


    The one that doesn't exist?



    Seriously how many times do you bring up the same cr*p when you already know the answer?


  • #6200
    McMurphy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    blanch152 wrote: »
    Eh, Minister Foley is a Fianna Fail minister, even when it is a Fianna Fail Minister, some people want to blame Leo!!!!!

    **Whoosh**
    McMurphy wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/oconnellhugh/status/1294227529251856387?s=19

    Someone telling Leo to STFU......That'll go down well among the FG zealots. :D


  • #6201
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    Any chance we can get back on topic, The Govt.

    How long is this shambles going to continue. They are out of their depth like never before.


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  • #6202
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    Any chance we can get back on topic, The Govt.

    How long is this shambles going to continue. They are out of their depth like never before.


    So what your alternative?


  • #6203
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    So what your alternative?

    SF, SD, PBP, Independents

    Something needs to happen.

    They are starting to make Boris look not that mad at all anymore.

    FG are not happy that's clear.


  • #6204
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    SF, SD, PBP, Independents

    Something needs to happen.

    They are starting to make Boris look not that mad at all anymore.

    FG are not happy that's clear.

    They better suck it up because we've a long way to go yet.


  • #6205
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    SF, SD, PBP, Independents

    Something needs to happen.

    They are starting to make Boris look not that mad at all anymore.

    FG are not happy that's clear.


    I asked what your alternative to what the government proposed yesterday......


    Great to say they are wrong but what would you want an alternative to do?


  • #6206
    smurgen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    Aul Eamon must be on the sleepy nighty snoozy snooze again.

    https://twitter.com/colettebrowne/status/1296020292956037120?s=19


  • #6207
    christy c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,256 ✭✭✭christy c


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    Any chance we can get back on topic, The Govt.

    How long is this shambles going to continue. They are out of their depth like never before.

    The criticism of the government could get lost like the boy who cried wolf but i agree that yesterday's announcement was a shambles. If we take your point about how long is the government going to continue, I'm not sure even how logistically we could have an election in the current environment? And are we still going to be left with a cobbled together government?

    As regards the current situation, opening the schools looks like pie in the sky now. The only thing I could see working (as an armchair expert) is a zero covid strategy with mandatory supervised quarantine. But we would have to come to an agreement with the north to implement the same strategy. And while SF get plenty of deserved criticism, Arlene & co. would make them look reasonable in comparison.


  • #6208
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    I asked what your alternative to what the government proposed yesterday......


    Great to say they are wrong but what would you want an alternative to do?

    Well for a start, do something about the Meat Factory's, Factory's in general causing the issues. Spot checks daily, closed down until they sort their **** out.

    Sort out the arrivals in the airports, when asked about testing at airports during the press conference yesterday, Donnelly went onto to talk about online locator forms (ive heard that for 2 months now)

    Stop tourists arriving, send them home unless they can prove they are here for more than 14 days (and put them up in City West until 14 days is up)

    Not tell everyone to stay at home but send kids back school ignoring everything they said yesterday.

    That is a start!


  • #6209
    Shefwedfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,752 ✭✭✭✭Shefwedfan


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    Well for a start, do something about the Meat Factory's, Factory's in general causing the issues. Spot checks daily, closed down until they sort their **** out.

    Sort out the arrivals in the airports, when asked about testing at airports during the press conference yesterday, Donnelly went onto to talk about online locator forms (ive heard that for 2 months now)

    Stop tourists arriving, send them home unless they can prove they are here for more than 14 days (and put them up in City West until 14 days is up)

    Not tell everyone to stay at home but send kids back school ignoring everything they said yesterday.

    That is a start!


    None of that makes sense, if that was implemented it would cause more confusion.



    No problem with people complaining about the new protocols. Some dont make sense to me but at least have somethign as an alternative.


  • #6210
    dundalkfc10
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,719 ✭✭✭dundalkfc10


    Shefwedfan wrote: »
    None of that makes sense, if that was implemented it would cause more confusion.



    No problem with people complaining about the new protocols. Some dont make sense to me but at least have somethign as an alternative.

    So it makes no sense to stop tourists arriving into the country?

    No sense to sort out the Factory's causing a large amount of the cases?

    Ok for them after 2 months, to still have no online locator forms at airport?

    Letting kids go back to school, on public transport (which we have been told not to use), in classrooms with 30 kids and 4 or 4 adults (we are told to only see 6 others at one time)

    You cannot be defending this, every FF and FG person ive talked to this morning has noted its all a shambles


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  • #6211
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    dundalkfc10 wrote: »
    So it makes no sense to stop tourists arriving into the country?

    No sense to sort out the Factory's causing a large amount of the cases?

    Ok for them after 2 months, to still have no online locator forms at airport?

    Letting kids go back to school, on public transport (which we have been told not to use), in classrooms with 30 kids and 4 or 4 adults (we are told to only see 6 others at one time)

    You cannot be defending this, every FF and FG person ive talked to this morning has noted its all a shambles

    Shef Wed wants a white paper on recommendations.

    The meat factories should be closed, cleaned and social distancing measures be implemented in the factories where it is practical. Start with the meat factories that have highest infection rates and work down the line then. Obiviously all the factories cant be shut at the one time so keeping some open while the others are being treated will keep the supply chaing going.

    As for travel, it needs to be more robust than filling out a form and off ya go. The only real answer is to test people coming into the country and have them in quarentine till the test results come back.


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