RandomViewer wrote: » https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark ? I was asking a question, you've answered it with Trumpian aplomb , so he did have a shindig?
blanch152 wrote: » More fake news.
FrancieBrady wrote: » Dominate? You love your exaggerations. Somebody constantly saying 'the goverment were only doing their best' is trying to stop criticism of the government = blocking/censorship attempts. Attempts that are made fairly hypocritical when said poster clatters over the cat to get to the keboard when one particular party is to be criticised.
smurgen wrote: » That can be negotiated on non stop. SF want to stop flights. It's FFG and Westminster seem opposed to quarantine. Why would stemming the flow not matter? Saying the border means nothing. Cutting international flights makes it more difficult to enter the republic regardless and reduces the chances of more potent variations of the virus coming into Ireland. Measures can be taken to ensure only vital workers cross the border now. As it stands people are only meant to be 5km outside their house anyway. Do you find that as preferable?
RandomViewer wrote: » Dudnt Varadkar have a house party in Farmleigh?
Bishop of hope wrote: » You still didn't answer on the border. So demanding but no giving.
blanch152 wrote: » I don't think anybody has ever tried to block and censor you. You dominate every single thread on the government and on Sinn Fein. The proof is in the numbers that the opinions you promulgate are neither blocked nor censored.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Yeah, because Pat went ape in Belmullet it’s someone else’s fault. Little bit of hyperbole there Randall, you’re handy at that. Luckily most of us can see through that auld tactic.
smurgen wrote: » Remember when Harris and the fine Gaelers posted pictures of Berlin Bar asking for it to be shut down using emotive language like 'a middle finger to ireland' where was that Brendi when the golf pissup happened or when rte had their birthday bash?
Bishop of hope wrote: » What do you do with hauliers and workers associated with the bringing in of freight? If we get quarentine rules here but none in the north are you in favour of closing the north border? See we going round in circles.
FrancieBrady wrote: » You are trying to block and censor those who do hold the government accountable for some of the problems. Governments are and must be accountable, this is a democracy and you are trying to silence. You are also not afraid to point at one political party when it suits while claiming neutrality.
Bishop of hope wrote: » Jesus Mc, what are you on about? You're talking like everyone else, talking in hindsight here and I'm sure if the govt could act in hindsight they'd have acted differently. I'm just pointing out that when the govt did what they did restriction wise at the it was mostly welcomed, even by the opposition. Now in hindsight its easy to preach about what should have and could have been done. But I see no evidence that any other govt or party likely to have been in govt would have done that much differently. So what exactly are you saying?
McMurphy wrote: » They can tell the tens of thousands of people who caught the virus, furloughed from their jobs, and buried loved ones with no funerals etc, that they were putting the country first by defying the experts health advice too Brenner. I'm sure it'll stand over them no bother at all.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » Such a thing as putting the country first, they say. The citizen army of course don’t pay any heed to that.
Brendan Bendar wrote: » The electorate locked her out, Randall, wouldn’t being run from the high slopes of the Black Mountain, along with the ragtaggle bunch of citizen army types from Dun Laoire. Nobody with a lick of sense would get into bed with that lot. Might as well put a match to ones investments.
McMurphy wrote: » I don't know what's confusing to be honest, you said if we all stuck to the medical experts, and the govt advice to the letter, we'd be ok. I'm pointing out that that isn't true because the government went against NPHET advice. Whether MLMD agreed at the time or not isnt important, it means she agreed with the wrong decision. And if Leo and Michaél hadn't locked her out of govt, the buck would be stopping with her also.
smurgen wrote: » What has any of that got to do with airports? You're saying we can't reduce every risk so let's not reduce any risk is that the argument?
smurgen wrote: » Hindsight? They've been lagging calls from public and experts from the get go. Take this poll. Over 90% support for mandatory quarantine from those arriving from abroad. The government will only do what NPHET were requesting since May when it's being screamed over and over again.https://www.thejournal.ie/mandatory-quarantine-ireland-5332489-Jan2021/?utm_source=twitter_short
McMurphy wrote: » Have you ever heard the expression "I could agree with you if you like, and then we'll both be wrong"? MLMD ain't in govt either bish.
Bishop of hope wrote: » We have yes and the govt had to make such decisions, that's what govts have to do. Here is a quote from Marylou on the announcements of restrictions prior to Xmas. She didn't raise any concerns about anything then so suggesting that's probably what they would have done too, who knows.
Bowie wrote: » He's winging it. These calibre of 'best people' can't help but play politics be it generational debt, quangos, cronyism or a global pandemic. Not fit to govern IMO. If there was money in lockdowns they'd close the airports. Sadly I can see things get really bad and MM suggest nobody saw this coming.
smurgen wrote: » Martin setting 200 cases as a goal is depressing. It was 200 just before December.https://twitter.com/gavreilly/status/1352937913269575681?s=19
markodaly wrote: » Not at all, its like shooting fish in a barrel. If a poster makes up god awful comments about people having 'blood on their hands', then they better man up and defend the same comments when it can be directed at NI and indeed other nation, be it the UK, France, Holland, Belgium Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, etc...all of whom have a worse death per capita rate than Ireland... It's just being hysterical for the sake of it and makes the person being hysterical look rather foolish. Let us not really pretend the poster making those comments actually care about people dying, as its just a political football used to give the government a bit of a kicking and the proof is his absolute silence and complicity when questions are asked about his beloved SF being in government in the North, where MORE people have died.
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