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  • #202
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,819 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    tigger123 wrote: »
    He's an insufferable gobsh*te.

    You should've heard Donnelly so. Makes Healy Rae into a Stephen Hawkin.


  • #203
    Father Hernandez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,302 ✭✭✭✭Father Hernandez


    RobitTV wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/yfg/status/1409864737005920256
    They said we are all in this together. We won't stand for young people being left behind.

    I mean they are literally in power.


  • #204
    PaulJoseph22
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭PaulJoseph22


    dirkmeister wrote: »
    Ray D’Arcy comparing the closure extension to the smoking ban.

    Says being an “outlier is often a good thing”

    Propaganda broadcaster ala Fox News….


  • #205
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    A Taoiseach with no testicles


  • #206
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,675 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    Times like this I wish we had an effective opposition. We’re being absolutely fecked here.


  • #207
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    jakiah wrote: »
    The guy is derranged, Gemma O'Doherty is anti-NPHET you'll be posting her **** next

    Some people would jump of a bridge if their enemies were pro bridge. It's nothing but a childish approach. Just because you hate someone, it doesn't mean that they are always wrong.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • #208
    The HorsesMouth
    Registered Users Posts: 497 ✭✭The HorsesMouth


    titan18 wrote: »
    Wouldn't suprise me if someone in NPHET or the government is getting married and wants 50 people.

    Not saying it is the reason but Minister of state Robert Troy is getting married on July 17th


  • #209
    SortingYouOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭SortingYouOut


    Father Hernandez wrote: »
    I mean they are literally in power.

    They're not in power, the real party are. Two very different entities.

    Beverly Hills, California



  • #210
    RobitTV
    Registered Users Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭RobitTV


    Stop questioning the experts folks. Mind your own business.

    https://twitter.com/Michael_O_Regan/status/1409827633500622850


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  • #211
    John.Icy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,015 ✭✭✭John.Icy


    It's honestly hilarious that Leo Varadkar spent his weekend wedged into Capel Street in what I can only describe as some of the most packed I've ever seen streets in Dublin. Outdoors sure, but something NPHET still consider not safe and a risk factor.

    Yet here he is today dictating about restrictions and dangers of Delta etc. etc and just generally being ridiculously pessimistic. Does the man believe anything he says in his official capacity? If he did, then he most certainly wouldn't be attending huge unauthorised Pride street parties. Make it make sense. I'm sure he will say he went home before it got too busy.

    EDIT: I have no issues with the scenes I saw for the record - but that gowl being there at such a thing, get outta here.


  • #212
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    AMKC wrote: »
    Delighted that the delay is happening. Now if the Government had been giving everyone including myself the Jennson vaccine like they were supposed to instead of the two jab pfizer one I would have been up for more opening up but as it is with the Delta variant around it is only right that more opening up of the country is delayed.

    Delighted? Strange emotion for the day.
    Also Pfizer is more effective after one dose than the one-shot is. Which is another bit of unscientific nonsense that has been passed over all this time.


  • #213
    eastie17
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭eastie17


    Nash Lemon Serfdom wrote: »
    Us Irish, we take a lot. We do what needs to be done and get on with it. I think today however could have tipped the balance to people saying enough. Time will tell.

    Its been said before, for all of our rebel talk, the English walked all over us for 800 years and its only through the dogedness of a few hundred people that we managed to make changes.
    If Boards was around then we'd all be piling on calling Michael Collins a terrorist and saying what a disgrace the whole thing was.
    We're sheep.

    I'm nearly 50, personally it doesn't impact me that much but feel for my kids and their friends who are teenagers and early 20s. But everyone evolves to the situation, and they have evolved to shebeens and house parties or heading off camping in fields and having bonfires and drinks. Pity that they have to but more power to them, 1 of them has spent his first year of college in his bedroom after missing out on the rights of passage such as ending school with the gang he soldiered with for 14 years. No grads/debs, no LC etc.
    Yeah ok, they didnt die, but those are lifetime memories they were robbed of. Now they are starting to make noises about going back for 2nd year.


  • #214
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,011 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    jakiah wrote: »
    The guy is derranged, Gemma O'Doherty is anti-NPHET you'll be posting her **** next

    When you discredit certain voices (who lets face it were the only ones publicly against restrictions in the last year), you make it easier for the government to take advantage of you. Viewpoints like yours are the reason we're in this mess. Any dissenting opinion is wrongthink.


  • #215
    SortingYouOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,380 ✭✭✭SortingYouOut


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Times like this I wish we had an effective opposition. We’re being absolutely fecked here.

    The opposition are afraid to say boo because they're in a relatively favorable position and the less input for them means the less chance of saying the wrong thing etc. They're inactive because being active right now is risky, they'd rather sit back and watch the madness unfold.

    Beverly Hills, California



  • #216
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,188 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    Royale with Cheese wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2021/0629/1232044-dail-leaders/

    I never thought I'd see myself voting for Labour but if they're the only ones opposing this nonsense then I guess I'm in.

    I was actually watching that, he absolutely ripped Eamonn Ryan a new one, typical they left him to deal with the fallout tbh

    It does feel like this latest decision has seen the majority opinion shift tbh. The next two weeks are going to be hell for the government, and rightly so.


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  • #217
    PaulJoseph22
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭PaulJoseph22


    Fann Linn wrote: »
    You should've heard Donnelly so. Makes Healy Rae into a Stephen Hawkin.

    Imbecile, did he go to secondary school?


  • #218
    gozunda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    NPHET are projecting that we will have cases and deaths in the next 8 weeks per capita multiples times that India suffered from their delta wave and it's been accepted without any discussion or challenge.

    Why are weddings and hotels safe for indoors but not restaurants?

    Well no that's not the full story. They provided at least two very different projections. One called a "worst case scenario" ie extremely unlikely and another at the other end of the scale which to be fair is barely removed from where we are at atm.

    I believe the main reason they've decided to delay the bulk of indoor activities is simply get more people double jabbed. And I'm not "projecting" that. Thats simply what has been already stated.

    But yes we've already got outdoor dining. Weddings and hotels are already heavily restricted afaik.


  • #219
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    Jesus Christ

    https://twitter.com/Michael_O_Regan/status/1409841550985773058

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • #220
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    lol, so they are going to have a "plan" by July 19th, which will probably take weeks to months to implement. Any other country would be rioting in the streets at this nonsense.


  • #221
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    I seem to remember a number of posters in here a few months ago championing our painfully slow reopening, especially when the UK announced their delay (despite them still being much further along than we were). Our conservative reopening plan (the slowest in Europe) would, they said, mean that there would be no delays to that reopening.
    Yet here we are.

    I am utterly livid. From a personal point of view, my family and I have been quite lucky. Both my wife (before maternity leave) and I have been able to work from home all the time. We've saved on commutes and have ended up in a better financial position than we were in before all this started. Not to mention, I've had more time to spend with my two daughters than I would have had if I were commuting. Not that it wasn't difficult. Dealing with a newborn, a toddler while creches were closed and a wife with PND while having to work full time nearly killed me, but I realized that there were plenty of people worse off.

    But it's utter insanity that we have tighter restrictions in summer 2021 than we did in summer 2020 with 4 million doses of vaccines administered. I've never witnessed such an inept, spineless government. It's utterly sickening that I'm in my early thirties and this is the second time in my adult life that I've witnessed a FF led government completely eviscerate the Irish economy. Of course, the chief conspirators will be completely insulated from the economic fallout. The burden will mostly fall on the youth of the country, yet again. My two kids are only 3 years old and 8 months old yet they will likely still be paying the debt accrued from the last 16 months (due to be around €50,000 for every man, woman and child by the end of the year).

    This will be looked back on in the future as an utterly shameful part of our history.


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  • #222
    muddypuppy
    Registered Users Posts: 322 ✭✭muddypuppy


    titan18 wrote: »
    Wouldn't suprise me if someone in NPHET or the government is getting married and wants 50 people.

    Also it's only for weddings that are already planned/booked. Sure weddings take time to organize, but if you book from today my understanding is that you'll be limited to 25 guests.
    As an exception, weddings already planned will be permitted to proceed on the basis of the expected changes, with 50 guests permitted to attend wedding receptions with protective measures


  • #223
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    I have supported the Government up until this point, but jesus I cant fathom why they have made the decision which they have.

    I am actually really p1ssed off, and I am one of the vaccinated. I dont say it lightly, but I expect that this will be a major turning point for people. I see a lot of protests in the coming hours/days.


  • #224
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    Times like this I wish we had an effective opposition. We’re being absolutely fecked here.

    Opposition are silent which leaves the likes of the Healy Raes and other independents bringing this up in the Dail, and they can be easily dismissed as cranks and eejits. We don't have functioning political institutions meaning NPHET get to dictate unchallenged.


  • #225
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    TomTomTim wrote: »
    Jesus Christ

    https://twitter.com/Michael_O_Regan/status/1409841550985773058

    Wow :o


  • #226
    RavenBea17b
    Registered Users Posts: 318 ✭✭RavenBea17b


    FileNotFound wrote: »
    Good point - better question would be how many vaccinated have ended up on ventilators in the UK, now given that vaccine efficacy is only 50-60% I am sure there will be some but statistically significant?

    Sadly, we do not know, that level of detail, plus it would be interesting to know a semi-breakdown of critical (were they use ECMO) medical induced etc.

    Do Ireland release that sort of level of information/data. How many ECMO are on the island of Ireland. Not aware of any in the North.

    last figures published for all UK serious/critical was 257 people (published yesterday for day before)

    I guess also, there are differing levels of ventilation required and level of seriousness etc.

    Hence the concern about Delta. Thankfully, the numbers are increasing daily for vaccination, but we all have a role in being cautious (IMHO). It is very tough sometimes, but thinking back to where we have come from, what might have been, I can wait a bit longer. I wouldn't like to be the one making those tough decisions in government or not - its a damned if do or don't - never mind the politics side of things. Just my opinion.


  • #227
    PaulJoseph22
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭PaulJoseph22


    muddypuppy wrote: »
    Also it's only for weddings that are already planned/booked. Sure weddings take time to organize, but if you book from today my understanding is that you'll be limited to 25 guests.

    Beyond farcical


  • #228
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,675 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    On the morning of July 19th I can fly to Spain. Go to 10-15 bars and restaurants and fly back that night. But can’t stop and go in somewhere for food on the way back from the airport.


  • #229
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    TomTomTim wrote: »
    Jesus Christ

    https://twitter.com/Michael_O_Regan/status/1409841550985773058

    Sorry, not living in Ireland so don't know this journalist. Is that sarcasm or is he genuine?


  • #230
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    TomTomTim wrote: »
    Jesus Christ

    https://twitter.com/Michael_O_Regan/status/1409841550985773058

    From reading his Tweets, I get the distinct impression he's one of those deliberately contrarian 'journalists'.

    This alone cannot be serious:

    https://twitter.com/Michael_O_Regan/status/1409855286010073090


  • #231
    PaulJoseph22
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭PaulJoseph22


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    On the morning of July 19th I can fly to Spain. Go to 10-15 bars and restaurants and fly back that night. But can’t stop and go in somewhere for food on the way back from the airport.

    And they’re encouraging everyone to get the vaccine passport.

    They’re loving the control, that’s what it’s all about now, that smirking imbecile Martin is proof of it.


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  • #232
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    namloc1980 wrote: »
    Opposition are silent which leaves the likes of the Healy Raes and other independents bringing this up in the Dail, and they can be easily dismissed as cranks and eejits. We don't have functioning political institutions meaning NPHET get to dictate unchallenged.

    I had a lecturer who used to praise Ireland for its great "centrism". In reality, there's nothing centrist about Ireland, all the parties all but sing the same tune, so no one calls the others out when it's needed. As you've said, it simply results in a broken system, where genuine problems can be shoved under the rug with ease.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • #233
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,825 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    TomTomTim wrote: »
    Jesus Christ

    https://twitter.com/Michael_O_Regan/status/1409841550985773058

    Surely he's being sarcastic.
    This is like a bad Tele novella except the ending is dragged on and on and on with our eyes taped open and strapped to a chair to watch it.
    We always have to do things arse ways.
    If I fly to Ireland on July 18th before midnight I need a ridiculous PCR test but if I arrive on the 19th the country is open to me.
    Now out of pure curiosity, what if my flight landed at 00:01?


  • #234
    Vicxas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,404 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    We now go live to NPHETS spokesman on the state of the country:

    11714263-head-of-a-thoroughbred-shire-horse-wearing-tackle-and-blinkers.jpg


  • #235
    brickster69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,786 ✭✭✭brickster69


    Honestly, how is it possible for hotels to serve meals indoors and restaurants can't ? An Irish guy who owns one is on Sky news now and he is totally shell shocked poor guy, he does not have a clue what is going on.

    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • #236
    TomTomTim
    Registered Users Posts: 2,841 ✭✭✭TomTomTim


    bear1 wrote: »
    Surely he's being sarcastic.
    This is like a bad Tele novella except the ending is dragged on and on and on with our eyes taped open and strapped to a chair to watch it.
    We always have to do things arse ways.
    If I fly to Ireland on July 18th before midnight I need a ridiculous PCR test but if I arrive on the 19th the country is open to me.
    Now out of pure curiosity, what if my flight landed at 00:01?

    There was once a quote I heard about most men living life like they're on a stage; the tweet in question takes the sentiment to a radical extreme.

    “The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov




  • #237
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,825 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Ah lads this was 11 days ago..

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/highest-incidence-of-delta-variant-found-in-dublin-but-virus-is-shrinking-nationally-40553014.html

    How in the name of fook has that suddenly changed?


  • #238
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,330 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    bear1 wrote: »
    Ah lads this was 11 days ago..

    https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/health/highest-incidence-of-delta-variant-found-in-dublin-but-virus-is-shrinking-nationally-40553014.html

    How in the name of fook has that suddenly changed?

    There's something rotten going on here beyond what we're being told. Honestly it makes no sense.


  • #239
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    Hammer Archer wrote: »

    This will be looked back on in the future as an utterly shameful part of our history.

    Sadly we've had a few of those in recent times. Same political party in power also, as you pointed out.


  • #240
    Downlinz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭Downlinz


    titan18 wrote: »
    When you discredit certain voices (who lets face it were the only ones publicly against restrictions in the last year), you make it easier for the government to take advantage of you. Viewpoints like yours are the reason we're in this mess. Any dissenting opinion is wrongthink.

    We have an overly cautious health board coupled with a government who are terrified of deviating from their advice after what happened last December.

    There's nothing more happening than that. People talking about a coup, a big social experiment or a removal of democracy or whatever are either deranged or in most cases pushing some other agenda.


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  • #241
    lawrencesummers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,617 ✭✭✭lawrencesummers


    Kiith wrote: »
    • Young people are not allowed into pubs for a pint, as its dangerous.
    • But young people are allowed in pubs if they are serving people, as that'll be fine.
    Clearly the Delta variant has figured out how to only infect people enjoying themselves, and not working.

    What the actual ****? :confused:



    Take it a step further.


    If said young person gets infected in the next few weeks they will then be allowed have a pint, or at
    Least will be closer to having a pint than waiting for a jab


    So if your a young person it’s now beneficial to you to actually get infected.


  • #242
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Are NEPHET members being paid extra for being the NEPHET?


  • #243
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,696 ✭✭✭Red Silurian


    ACitizenErased wrote: »
    On the morning of July 19th I can fly to Spain. Go to 10-15 bars and restaurants and fly back that night. But can’t stop and go in somewhere for food on the way back from the airport.

    Very true although you can stop in a beer garden somewhere for a bite to eat and if you go to Spain then chances are you'd be eating and drinking outdoors anyway because of the heat there


  • #244
    ACitizenErased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,675 ✭✭✭✭ACitizenErased


    David Higgins on the ball, again.
    https://twitter.com/higginsdavidw/status/1409885270049239048?s=21


  • #245
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,825 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Surely they must be the most hated crowd in the country now?


  • #246
    TomSweeney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭TomSweeney


    dirkmeister wrote: »
    Ray D’Arcy comparing the closure extension to the smoking ban.

    Says being an “outlier is often a good thing”


    Disgustingly dishonest from Darcy, but I shouldn't be surprised...


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  • #247
    Tchaikovsky
    Registered Users Posts: 2,185 ✭✭✭Tchaikovsky


    bear1 wrote: »
    Surely they must be the most hated crowd in the country now?

    Worse than the Black and Tans at this stage.


  • #248
    Tzardine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    Worse than the Black and Tans at this stage.

    Come out ye goon Michael Martin,
    Left me go for a meal, cause I'm starvin.


  • #249
    Ballynally
    Registered Users Posts: 214 ✭✭Ballynally


    jimmycrackcorm wrote: »
    So it looks like we should get the HSE vaccination card laminated...
    Is it now worth more than a twenty Euro note?

    Afaik that vaccination card wont be accepted, laminated or not. They will come out with a (digital) Covid19 Certificate as the only proof that counts at some point in time, yet to be decided but with July 19 as the target date which of course could change due to some 'technical' difficulties of implementation.
    Those paper cards can easily be copied or stolen fr offices as they were used in vaccination centres, filled in by pencil.


  • #250
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Downlinz wrote: »
    We have an overly cautious health board coupled with a government who are terrified of deviating from their advice after what happened last December.

    There's nothing more happening than that. People talking about a coup, a big social experiment or a removal of democracy or whatever are either deranged or in most cases pushing some other agenda.

    We have a public which is mostly in lockstep with the lockdown which means the govt has little reason to fear carrying on with this nonsense


  • #251
    PaulJoseph22
    Registered Users Posts: 500 ✭✭✭PaulJoseph22


    Tchaikovsky wrote: »
    Worse than the Black and Tans at this stage.

    But how quick we forget……… and they’ll grab power again, Martin doesn’t care, he just wanted to be PM at any cost and the fat pension and after dinner speeches to look forward to. Despicable.


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