Relaxation of Restrictions, Part X Read OP For Mod Warnings

DerekC16 · 29-03-2021 10:25PM

Crossed Portobello bridge earlier on heading for home. There was at least a thousand people along the canal and down as far as the barge pub, Great to see people out socialising.

fin12 · 29-03-2021 10:26PM

Why does Ticketmaster still have concert dates up for 2021? Would they just change them , like what are they actually waiting for? I want to buy a ticket but don’t want to while they still have 2021 on it.

Indestructable · 29-03-2021 10:28PM

Weather to be lovely tomorrow.

Get out and enjoy it for your mental health.
I'll be working.

Ray Donovan · 29-03-2021 10:29PM

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MichealLehane/status/1376643520845508609?s=19

NPHET needs to be disbanded tonight.

fin12 · 29-03-2021 10:29PM

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MichealLehane/status/1376643520845508609?s=19

They are some sad b*stards. I bet they are all having dinner parties in each other’s mansions every weekend... and can travel the length and breath of the country...,,

Cluedo Monopoly · 29-03-2021 10:29PM

Are we going to have a meaningful Easter?

PTH2009 · 29-03-2021 10:30PM

Oscar Bravo wrote: »

https://twitter.com/MichealLehane/status/1376643520845508609?s=19

Interesting but think it matters SFA as i cant see them going behind NPHETS back again

Be funny if they did and then on Weds we see tweets from NPHET members dismissing the government and starting a civil war

marno21 · 29-03-2021 10:32PM

So it would appear the "leader" of this country is so frightened to make a decision after the Christmas debacle that he has subcontracted out running the country to a single issue motley crew of doctors and academics. Meanwhile the country is collapsing around them, both mentally, physically and economically. If they don't open construction next week, not only will there be further labour shortages but even more constricted supply for the next few years. The party in Sinn Fein HQ atm must be something else.

The Australian immigration office will have to start hiring to cope with the influx of applications coming their way.

Corholio · 29-03-2021 10:35PM

marno21 wrote: »

The party in Sinn Fein HQ atm must be something else.

The Australian immigration office will have to start hiring to cope with the influx of applications coming their way.

If there is a party in Sinn Fein HQ it'll be hardly earned, they have been truly awful opposition throughout all this.

hynesie08 · 29-03-2021 10:38PM

marno21 wrote: »

So it would appear the "leader" of this country is so frightened to make a decision after the Christmas debacle that he has subcontracted out running the country to a single issue motley crew of doctors and academics. Meanwhile the country is collapsing around them, both mentally, physically and economically. If they don't open construction next week, not only will there be further labour shortages but even more constricted supply for the next few years. The party in Sinn Fein HQ atm must be something else.

The Australian immigration office will have to start hiring to cope with the influx of applications coming their way.

The same sinn fein who wanted harsher restrictions and completely ballsed up the North when they weren't breaking restrictions themselves?

Yeah, party time.....

SnuggyBear · 29-03-2021 10:39PM

Cluedo Monopoly wrote: »

Are we going to have a meaningful Easter?

Only 1 egg this year, picking up another 1 double your chances of getting covid.

Aph2016 · 29-03-2021 10:43PM

Groundhog day watching politicians on TV, they'll give us very little tomorrow, almost April, this is depressing. A huge amount of the vulnerable are vaccinated, there has to be another approach.

CruelSummer · 29-03-2021 10:47PM

Christ Almighty, NPHET want another 6-8 weeks according to a journalist on Claire Byrne. Seriously?!!

The answer should be a firm no, change our approach and a more targeted approach.

Not even raising the km limit much by the sounds of it. Feck that.

Sharpyshoot · 29-03-2021 10:48PM

CruelSummer wrote: »

Christ Almighty, NPHET want another 6-8 weeks according to a journalist on Claire Byrne. Seriously?!!

The answer should be a firm no, change our approach and a more targeted approach.

Not even raising the km limit much by the sounds of it. Feck that.

If you were on their wages you would want it too.

29-03-2021 10:49PM

Anyone watching Claire Byrne, she was holding two plastic pints in her hand to denote hospitality. "So, are they reopening then". Treating a sector on its knees for the past year with such frivolity. And here comes Baz, resident expert about nothing in particular and that smug, smirking Luke chancer. RTÉ does not reflect the nation, only their own insular bubble. They haven't a bull's notion of what the ordinary person is going through, shambles of a broadcaster.

C__MC · 29-03-2021 10:49PM

CruelSummer wrote: »

Christ Almighty, NPHET want another 6-8 weeks according to a journalist on Claire Byrne. Seriously?!!

The answer should be a firm no, change our approach and a more targeted approach.

Not even raising the km limit much by the sounds of it. Feck that.

Spineless government unfortunately

RGS · 29-03-2021 10:50PM

Aph2016 wrote: »

Groundhog day watching politicians on TV, they'll give us very little tomorrow, almost April, this is depressing. A huge amount of the vulnerable are vaccinated, there has to be another approach.

Of course theres another approach but you need a government with balls and a strong leader.
We dont have either.

Reading the sindo article is unbelievable.
NPHET telling the government to hold firm.
One source stated we didnt lower expectations enough.
So it's the usual NPHET stay in lockdown to avoid lockdown.

So all the platitudes spoken by NPHET about understanding the toll lockdown was having on mental health was just total boll**ks.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/easing-lockdownnow-could-result-in-new-wave-of-covid-cases-lasting-until-mid-summer-nphet-warns-40254516.html

PTH2009 · 29-03-2021 10:51PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone watching Claire Byrne, she was holding two plastic pints in her hand to denote hospitality. "So, are they reopening then". Treating a sector on its knees for the past year with such frivolity. And here comes Baz, resident expert about nothing in particular and that smug, smirking Luke chancer. RTÉ does not reflect the nation, only their own insular bubble. They haven't a bull's notion of what the lay person is going through, shambles of a broadcaster.

Yeah my blood is boiling

Oh christ here comes the new cheery covid ad

bloopy · 29-03-2021 10:51PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Anyone watching Claire Byrne, she was holding two plastic pints in her hand to denote hospitality. "So, are they reopening then". Treating a sector on its knees for the past year with such frivolity. And here comes Baz, resident expert about nothing in particular and that smug, smirking Luke chancer. RTÉ does not reflect the nation, only their own insular bubble. They haven't a bull's notion of what the lay person is going through, shambles of a broadcaster.

Their 'current affairs' output is a bloody tabloid influenced disgrace.

Leftwaffe · 29-03-2021 10:55PM

I really don’t understand why so much emphasis is given to the 5km rule being expanded. That rule hasn’t existed in reality for weeks now, if even at all.

I’m from a rural-ish area and nobody abides by it. People just laugh at it as if it’s a farce of a rule, which it is. Surely NPHET can see this considering they’re able to tell us who’s meeting up for tea in each other’s houses?

The travel rule should be disbanded. At a bare minimum they should limit it to inter county travel. Resources should be pumped into outdoor life for the Summer if that’s their plan. Canopies, shelters, seating areas, etc. Shops should be allowed open with strict limited numbers inside at any one time.

Construction should be fully open now, I really don’t think people understand what we’re getting ourselves into having it closed for this long, a whole other world of pain for years and years.

I just wish everything wasn’t seen through the lense of this virus. We are hurting in many more facets of life at the moment and I think when all is said and done the history books will not be kind to us.

CruelSummer · 29-03-2021 10:55PM

And now playing an ad on TV from our own Government:
‘Don’t you dare call to someone’s house for a cup of tea, or you’ll end up in an ambulance dying from Covid.’
‘If you take a lift from someone, you’ll end up in ICU on a ventilator’. Seriously tone deaf. Thousands of people have had Covid here now, Irish people realise the threat & understand the prolonged lockdowns as our only strategy is not a viable approach.

PTH2009 · 29-03-2021 10:56PM

NPHET should be disbanded

hynesie08 · 29-03-2021 10:57PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

NPHET should be disbanded

Why?

Leftwaffe · 29-03-2021 10:57PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

NPHET should be disbanded

Press conferences should be taken off air. They have reached cult status now unfortunately.

ExMachina1000 · 29-03-2021 10:59PM

Leftwaffe wrote: »

I really don’t understand why so much emphasis is given to the 5km rule being expanded. That rule hasn’t existed in reality for weeks now, if even at all.

I’m from a rural-ish area and nobody abides by it. People just laugh at it as if it’s a farce of a rule, which it is. Surely NPHET can see this considering they’re able to tell us who’s meeting up for tea in each other’s houses?

The travel rule should be disbanded. At a bare minimum they should limit it to inter county travel. Resources should be pumped into outdoor life for the Summer if that’s their plan. Canopies, shelters, seating areas, etc. Shops should be allowed open with strict limited numbers inside at any one time.

Construction should be fully open now, I really don’t think people understand what we’re getting ourselves into having it closed for this long, a whole other world of pain for years and years.

I just wish everything wasn’t seen through the lense of this virus. We are hurting in many more facets of life at the moment and I think when all is said and done the history books will not be kind to us.

Isn't the ban on evictions related to the 5km rule somehow?
All part of the one law. Remove one the other goes

fin12 · 29-03-2021 10:59PM

Just saw the lidl ad, all emphasis being staying at home, they literally mentioned the word home 3 times on their ad, are Lidl on the governments payroll now aswell as all the Irish media...

cjyid · 29-03-2021 11:00PM

Whatever Michael says tomorrow will go through one ear and out the other for me anyway.

People have long gone past abiding by the current restrictions and whatever is announced tomorrow will just be laughed at.

All the time they've supposedly spent today discussing the next steps and they come to the conclusion another 6-8 weeks? And still no construction supposedly?

F**k that.

SnuggyBear · 29-03-2021 11:02PM

cjyid wrote: »

Whatever Michael says tomorrow will go through one ear and out the other for me anyway.

People have long gone past abiding by the current restrictions and whatever is announced tomorrow will just be laughed at.

All the time they've supposedly spent today discussing the next steps and they come to the conclusion another 6-8 weeks? And still no construction supposedly?

F**k that.

Whatever he says will be laughable

Leftwaffe · 29-03-2021 11:02PM

ExMachina1000 wrote: »

Isn't the ban on evictions related to the 5km rule somehow?
All part of the one law. Remove one the other goes

So I believe. But if they can link it then they can unlink it.

ImDave · 29-03-2021 11:03PM

NPHET quoted as telling the government to ’hold firm’.

You really wouldn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this stage! They’ve totally lost the run of themselves.

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Relaxation of Restrictions, Part X Read OP For Mod Warnings