Christmas DEADLINE spells death knell of Covid: Yuletide Liveline

I notice far less stuff in de shops this Christmas, bit at all surprising. They are stocking little in many places compared to previous years. I think people aren't even bothered on commenting on it with the year that's in it.

ButtersSuki wrote: »

Always struck me as very strange the timing of the self-published bukes shoyte; if he really wanted to promote them he should be doing it in the first week of December. Doing it now in Christmas week means even if you really wanted one of them, you’d struggle to get it in time for Christmas so to speak.

Don't you know it's simply a no/easy research filler, as some RTÉ staff start to take their Christmas holidays and not enough to "person" de lines of callers chaotically calling in about predicaments. You can be sure, pandemic or no pandemic, no flexibility has been exercised at the station in spite of a rapidly emerging national and international crisis like we've not quite seen before.

Dan Jaman wrote: »

Huh; d'ye think for a moment de Xmas holliers will be affected and anyone but those who are rostered in will be in there and the timers will be running the auto-play machines, like they do every Xmas / New Year.
De staff will take their hard-earned holidays, come hell or high water, and feck the lot of yiz.

Of course of course of course.

Makes little sense though, with a cohort of those staff not being able to benefit in any real or practical way from Christmas holidays this year, some fitting in isolation watching the box or listening to those radios on timers whilst Rome burns so to speak. With a bit of imagination they could be asked to volunteer to come in and prop up the station, enhancing news services, and with interjections of some live festive spirit lending a bit of morale to the nation. Let's face it, Christmas is half lost this year, for adults anyway.

The same staff could be given extra days to travel & enjoy life when things settle. But management are too apathetic to think on their feet and organise this. It should have been a "Plan B" already on the shelf, considering this year has been so volatile.

The news, which is effecting every single Ken if us, changes by the minute.., but back to non-researcher stuff