Can we have some fcuking control on the airports from high risk countries please?

Corholio · 13-04-2021 05:18PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Harris is about a billion times better than that dreadful spoofer Donnelly.

In quotes maybe, but he's in government too and should be effecting it from there. Donnelly has a fair bit to go to be as disastrous as Harris was. He just knows quotes placates some people, the same way Leo has recently been held up as some sort of good un again just because he's not Micheal Martin. For all the talk of NPHET on these threads, these politicians are the people that should get the venom.

The likes of Leo and Harris laughing at the people who are calling them up from the back of the room to save us.

namloc1980 · 13-04-2021 05:24PM

Corholio wrote: »

In quotes maybe, but he's in government too and should be effecting it from there. Donnelly has a fair bit to go to be as disastrous as Harris was. He just knows quotes placates some people, the same way Leo has recently been held up as some sort of good un again just because he's not Micheal Martin. For all the talk of NPHET on these threads, these politicians are the people that should get the venom.

The likes of Leo and Harris laughing at the people who are calling them up from the back of the room to save us.

Think he has done his fair share. Remember his trampolines nonsense or him walking around Dublin airport surrounded by the army making us look like some banana republic or getting annoyed that he doesn't get enough mentions on social media. Donnelly is a walking disaster zone.

Father Hernandez · 13-04-2021 05:28PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Harris is about a billion times better than that dreadful spoofer Donnelly.

Is he though? They're as bad as each other.

Like how did we get to be so unlucky that during a major crisis, probably the biggest since the Republic was formed, we'd have some of the worst ministers 'leading' the country with a coalition government that is also seen as the worst we've ever had.

Our last Minister for Health (Harris) brought the last government down and our current Minister is getting reports analysed into Twitter mentions about his name.

John Cleese couldn't even have written half the shít that's happened at a gov/hse level in the last 12 months.

Corholio · 13-04-2021 05:29PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Think he has done his fair share. Remember his trampolines nonsense or him walking around Dublin airport surrounded by the army making us look like some banana republic or getting annoyed that he doesn't get enough mentions on social media. Donnelly is a walking disaster zone.

Oh, I'm absolutely no fan of Donnelly at all, way out of his depth totally. But the likes of Harris, who was quite the media whore himself, was a level of terrible long before a pandemic.

Chris_5339762 · 13-04-2021 05:29PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Whatever issues people may have with Harris we have missed his plain talking.

https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0413/1209539-coronavirus-politics/

I absolutely hated Harris back in the day but I have to say he did a good, leading job when this COVID thing started. Now I really miss his straight talking.

saabsaab · 13-04-2021 05:31PM

josip wrote: »

I think there's something about 'variants coming in from abroad' that triggers a 'keep foreign things and people out' defense/coping mechanism in some people.
Even if it's Irish people bringing back the variant, there is still the irrational fear of 'abroad'.

This gets brought up a lot by those against restrictions on travel. In the current circumstances the fear is rational weather the traveler is Irish or not.

josip · 13-04-2021 05:38PM

saabsaab wrote: »

This gets brought up a lot by those against restrictions on travel. In the current circumstances the fear is rational weather the traveler is Irish or not.

Saabsaab, have you been outside Ireland (much) ?
Please feel free to not answer since it has little relevance to the topic, more my curiosity.

saabsaab · 13-04-2021 05:39PM

josip wrote: »

Saabsaab, have you been outside Ireland (much) ?
Please feel free to not answer since it has little relevance to the topic, more my curiosity.

Yes, I have but not in the last year.

13-04-2021 05:50PM

Time Magazine wrote: »

The reaction of some of the more “conservative”

Speaking as a small c conservative, my side are more against the restrictions than for them. I see the Left as the main supporters of these Stasi-like, Big State, anti-individual, collectivist restrictions.

Tyrone212 · 13-04-2021 05:58PM

namloc1980 wrote: »

Harris is about a billion times better than that dreadful spoofer Donnelly.

Both are shocking. I still can't get over what Harris said last summer. We have to remember we had 18 covids before this one and we have yet to make a vaccine for any of them. Minister for health saying that over 6 months in to the discovery of covid 19. I think people forget how much out of his depth he was. He's an embarrassing joke who should never have gotten that job. Didn't do him any harm though, he's minister for Education now. Not bad for a college drop out.

hotmail.com · 13-04-2021 06:35PM

No room at the Inn.

Internment hotels booked out this weekend. I get the impression the state will be allowing a lot of people to avoid the internment because they've no rooms left.

saabsaab · 13-04-2021 06:58PM

I'm sure that they have thought of this and have a plan b.

Feria40 · 13-04-2021 07:03PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I'm sure that they have thought of this and have a plan b.

We disagree on lots saabsaab but I presume you are being sarcastic here?! This Gov struggles enought with Plan A's, plan B is a step too far:pac:

13-04-2021 07:03PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I'm sure that they have thought of this and have a plan b.

Haha!!

It’s called Belfast

faceman · 13-04-2021 07:05PM

Red Silurian wrote: »

Just to elaborate on this, it's a 12 week between the 2 doses for AZ but your point is still a good one... There is also a 2 week wait for Moderna and Biontech after the second dose before full protection is given.. I presume there is similar for AZ and J&J but can't confirm

I’m open to correction on exact numbers, from late March the duration between doses was extended from 12 weeks to 16 for people people due to shortages in supply overall etc

faceman · 13-04-2021 07:06PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I'm sure that they have thought of this and have a plan b.

Plan B is the doubling of capacity to 1100 rooms next week :pac:

is_that_so · 13-04-2021 07:08PM

faceman wrote: »

I’m open to correction on exact numbers, from late March the duration between doses was extended from 12 weeks to 16 for people people due to shortages in supply overall etc

Not because of shortages, more to allow for more investigation of the clotting issue.

saabsaab · 13-04-2021 07:18PM

On another thread a posted has said that airlines are being notified not to allow anyine here without a confirmed place first.

13-04-2021 07:28PM

saabsaab wrote: »

On another thread a posted has said that airlines are being notified not to allow anyine here without a confirmed place first.

It’s reported in the Irish times as a Donnelly quote

Jack1985 · 13-04-2021 07:30PM

Deleted User wrote: »

It’s reported in the Irish times as a Donnelly quote

A Donnelly quote is bi-word in journalism to check other sources.

I'm sure O'Leary will happily oblige by telling him go f*ck himself.

is_that_so · 13-04-2021 07:32PM

Free at last!

Two women who were arrested at Dublin Airport after initially refusing to enter mandatory hotel quarantine are being released from quarantine this evening.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0413/1209727-niamh-mulreany-kirstie-mcgrath/

joseywhales · 13-04-2021 07:35PM

Like I feel almost sorry for him, anyone with a lick of sense knows that this will be a disaster. It didn't even work in canada.

That irish times article has the inevitable stories of people caring for their mother etc. You can be sure their will be a lot more harrowing stories.

Whilst the americans detain latin american children, ireland detains her own.

josip · 13-04-2021 07:42PM

is_that_so wrote: »

Free at last!

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0413/1209727-niamh-mulreany-kirstie-mcgrath/

No reason given?

zvone · 13-04-2021 07:42PM

saabsaab wrote: »

I'm sure that they have thought of this and have a plan b.

Yes, they can build a camp for them. They can named it.... concentration camp is taken, so lets name it Covid Camps then.

PaulJoseph22 · 13-04-2021 07:54PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Haha!!

It’s called Belfast

Well, we need help from a competent health system. We don’t have a competent government either so perhaps the NHS is our best shot.

Benimar · 13-04-2021 08:00PM

josip wrote: »

No reason given?

Probably negative tests on day 10, so quarantine lifted.

saabsaab · 13-04-2021 08:00PM

zvone wrote: »

Yes, they can build a camp for them. They can named it.... concentration camp is taken, so lets name it Covid Camps then.

Must be lots of places empty around the country to put them in.

Dempo1 · 13-04-2021 08:33PM

normanoffside wrote: »

For anyone studying a language as part of their degree; Erasmus is compulsory and counts as 25% of their total degree. The only option to not doing it is taking a year out and doing the placement the following year, but there are no guarantees to the pandemic being over next year either.
Do you expect these students to out their university degrees and lives permanently on hold until you deem it ok for them to go abroad for study?

So I get your point but how many university students have actually had in class tuition in the past year? So it's fine to travel abroad as part of a degree and not fine to attend classes in Ireland, explain the logic please, I might add the locations some of these students located too had some of the worst covid outbreaks in Europe. To finish, I heard a parent this morning who forked out 9K in fees for current college year and little or no time spent in actual classes.

13-04-2021 09:52PM

The Hotels are full.
This means that Irish Nationals can't return home from designated countries.
I hope people understand the significance of that?
A Country will not accept inbound travel of its own Citizens.

NSAman · 13-04-2021 09:58PM

faceman wrote: »

Plan B is the doubling of capacity to 1100 rooms next week :pac:

Sounds like the Mexican Border at this stage...

Will there be camps?

BUILD THE WALL... BUILD THE WALL!!

Can we have some fcuking control on the airports from high risk countries please?

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