higster wrote: » Hate saying it but I’m betting week Apr 12th after St Patrick’s/Easter bank holidays...
Kiith wrote: » Hopefully lvl4 by March, but we'll still have travel restrictions. Same county or tough luck i'd imagine. Hopefully not a specific distance restriction, as i'm about 50km from my future club.
slingerz wrote: » 50KM? That’s a trip every Sunday
woodyg wrote: » see yea all after the May bank holiday
opinionated3 wrote: » I'm afraid after Philip Nolan's interview on the radio today, you could be right. Setting the country up for a VERY slow and deliberate opening.
ridonkulous wrote: » What was he saying? Were there any specifics mentioned?
opinionated3 wrote: » No specifics per se. The opening of the country will be based on priorities first i.e schools, construction etc, but even that would be under a highly phased roll out. The only light at the end of the tunnel was the actual phrase he used....."high priority, low risk". I'm hoping golf comes under low risk but he seemed extremely cautious and basically said the country would be living with restrictions for a long, long time to come.
Roger_007 wrote: » I don’t think that golf will be very high on the priority list.......quite the opposite, in fact!
opinionated3 wrote: » And like a flock of sheep the GUI will just accept it......
willabur wrote: » what do you expect to happen exactly? Revolt?
blue note wrote: » I think people are grossly overestimating how much power golf Ireland have. When people say they shouldn't accept it, what do you mean? What should they do? It's not as if they can get public support to reopen the courses. We're not particularly popular with non golfers and with everything else closed, I can't imagine anyone would support golf reopening. So the government holding firm would probably make them look good if anything. I just don't understand what power golf ireland have here.
GreeBo wrote: » +1 And no government is going to waste time distinguishing between different sports and giving them different rules, its just asking for a fight on multiple fights.
opinionated3 wrote: » And when the "elite" amateurs of the GAA are allowed back in march, what will be the excuse then?
hurleronditch wrote: » I wouldn’t be surprised if when inter county GAA comes back, if the GUI wanted to run off the provincial championships, the Irish amateur open and close championship and some select scratch cups that door would be ajar. As much as the GAA is far from perfect, I guarantee you that if the ballygobackwards Junior Bs are back playing, the golf courses will be open, so I’m not sure what the problem is. All this other talk of the GUI rolling over and taking it, what do you expect to happen? The message at all levels, is stay at home, do some exercise locally but other than that don’t do anything or do go anywhere you don’t need to. The thought that the government would carve out one solitary sport for special beneficial treatment is hilarious. Stay at home lads, enjoy the golf on telly, roll some puts across the carpet and by the time the weather is half decent the courses will be open again. It’s fairly easy.
Whiplash85 wrote: » Varadkar did say this morning that he hopes level 4 in some form on March 5th. He emphasised meeting friends and family outdoors again. But it will probably be level 4 with some modifications. I think golf might be allowed in those circumstances but not for those living beyond a certain mile radius from their golf club and maybe limited to same household and 1 other from a different household. It came with usual caveats of numbers of cases and hospital numbers which do seem to be plateauing ever so slightly. Does anyone think golf is a possibility in early March and if not when can you see the earliest it will be allowed open?
opinionated3 wrote: » Honestly, I think the government will do whatever Tony tells them to do. So no golf, no socialising etc. Construction and schools seems to be the top end of it. Which is totally fine, but bear in mind it probably means another 4-6 weeks of lockdown generally speaking.
Whiplash85 wrote: » So if we take the ultra conservative NPHET scenario you painted above i.e. 6 weeks from 5th March that would bring us until the 16th April. By which time we will have been in level 5 restrictions for exactly 6 months with a 3 week in between. Its quite staggering and hard to comprehend that last sentence I am after typing but what you said is entirely plausible. We have given up so much of our freedoms and rights without so much as a whimper. You would wonder what kind of Ireland we will have when this is over. I think we pride ourselves on our welcome to tourists and visitors who invest so much in Irish tourism including golf tourism. We also like to advertise we are open for business. The messaging and tone of media, authorities be they in political or health circles while necessary and important at various stages will have become as endemic in the minds of people as the virus itself. It will be very hard to unring that particular bell but the messaging does need to change now over the next weeks and months. We cannot stay in a state of paralysis forever.
