[Deleted User] wrote: » Some ****wits will see the golf outing as some kind of vindication for these ****. It's not. It's the same. All *****.
Irishman80 wrote: » It's nowhere near the same. On the one hand, you've a couple of young people at a party who broke social distancing guidelines. On the other hand, you have government ministers who are giving power to the security apparatus of the State to arrest and charge people for breaking social distancing guidelines - then they head off and break them. And only a few days before this, the same government were outraged by a few young people dancing. Give me a break...
[Deleted User] wrote: » Have a break chief. You can hardly blame the ministers... They broke no rules. Was that not your spiel? No laws were broken. Both parties, both events, everyone involved were selfish *****. Absolutely I want the government ministers to behave better. But I am also old enough to know not to expect it. I find both reprehensible and one does not excuse the other. In fact, I think both compliment each other and prove that neither old nor young, nor rich nor poor are capable of common decency.
Irishman80 wrote: » The Ministers are in positions of power dictating how we should live our lives. Punching down at us while they are destroying our livelihoods. Then doing the same thing they threaten to lock us up for. The young people dancing are doing what young people do - enjoying themselves. I suppose you think common decency includes the mobs attacking and threatening a young woman because people at her party danced (Politicians added fuel to this fire by joining in). Common decency, yeah right...the valley of the squinting windows and outrage mobs.
quokula wrote: » Pouring from a distance
[Deleted User] wrote: » I think common decency is keeping distance, not socially gathering, having a sense of responsibility for our actions and not engaging in reckless behaviour. The people in Berlin and the **** at the golf outing flouted common decency. Both are disgusting. Both should be looked down upon. The ministers are guilty of a higher level of hypocrisy but that in no way excuses the actions of the people in Berlin.
Irishman80 wrote: » When we start holding all the powerful people in Ireland and around the world to account for bringing this death and destruction upon us, I might (just might) register a small protest sentence against a couple of ordinary, private individuals for dancing. It wont include harassing or threatening them though as part of a hysterical mob.
wandererz wrote: » In the case of the Dublin situation, the person who took the video expressed concern over what was happening and over their safety because of that.
hynesie08 wrote: » The person who took the video was the organiser...........
pgj2015 wrote: » is that a gay bar? seemed pretty gay to me.
wandererz wrote: » There's other video and interviews of a couple who were there who expressed fear of what was happening and left early.
silver2020 wrote: » Excellent opinion piece in the Irish timeshttps://www.irishtimes.com/business/rage-over-berlin-bar-is-a-distraction-from-what-ireland-must-do-1.4335064
dasdog wrote: » "The fact that the background music was from a band called The Killers added to the sense of abandon." What a terrible sentence in what otherwise is a reasoned article. Journalists need to start drinking top shelf at lunch time as they used to.
Spanish Eyes wrote: » Who actually gives a sht.