Covid-19 Kerry

amdaley28 · 29-04-2020 11:30am

wonga77 wrote: »

Whatever about the original decision which was reckless, they could save face and try to be transparent about the current cases. The locals have a right to know. The speculation and the chit chat on facebook is only making things worse

Have you ever seem a Government Dept that was transparent :rolleyes:

Radio5 · 29-04-2020 12:53pm

They played a clip on Kerry Today this morning of a journalist from Joe.ie website, asking a question about the Cahirsiveen situation at the daily evening press conference at Dept of Health. The doctor, Dr. Colm Henry, replied to the effect that he hadn't heard about 'that situation' and would talk to the journalist further 'off line ' as he put it, i.e. not in the course of the Q & A.

Nothing transparent there either.

amdaley28 · 29-04-2020 1:24pm

Radio5 wrote: »

They played a clip on Kerry Today this morning of a journalist from Joe.ie website, asking a question about the Cahirsiveen situation at the daily evening press conference at Dept of Health. The doctor, Dr. Colm Henry, replied to the effect that he hadn't heard about 'that situation' and would talk to the journalist further 'off line ' as he put it, i.e. not in the course of the Q & A.

Nothing transparent there either.

If the doctor didn't know anything about it then he must be the only one :rolleyes:
Lets hope that journalist put the answers up online, that's if they don't try to quieten him that is.

Rows Grower · 29-04-2020 6:43pm

Ah c'mere, I just watched the RTE News.

How can the Department of Justice be insistent that all HSE guidelines are being followed in that hotel?

This is gone beyond the beyonds of taking the people for fools in all fairness.

An Ciarraioch · 29-04-2020 9:28pm

4 cases today.

Rows Grower · 30-04-2020 11:51am

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/woman-in-direct-provision-describes-trauma-as-daughter-7-tests-positive-for-covid-19-996870.html

Looks like these poor people are being moved left right and center.

An Ciarraioch · 30-04-2020 6:21pm

And back to no cases today - still appears as if none are being found outside of Cahersiveen.

Rows Grower · 01-05-2020 9:08am

Seriously like, it's time Brendan Griffin grew a pair and stood up to be counted for Kerry people instead of being a yes man for Leo..

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/four-of-kerrys-five-tds-call-for-immediate-closure-of-direct-provision-centre-in-caherciveen-996995.html

amdaley28 · 01-05-2020 10:48am

Rows Grower wrote: »

Seriously like, it's time Brendan Griffin grew a pair and stood up to be counted for Kerry people instead of being a yes man for Leo..

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/four-of-kerrys-five-tds-call-for-immediate-closure-of-direct-provision-centre-in-caherciveen-996995.html

I sent two e mails to Minister Griffin but only got a reply from one of his "family" member employees. Never heard a word from Minister Griffin.
Its obvious that either Minister Griffin doesn't have any clout or is simply afraid to say something in case he loses his handy number.
The Kerry TD's were caught on the hop with this.
They should be aware of decisions relating to Kerry & it shouldn't be up to the public to force them to get their act together.

Incidentally the Dept of Defence didn't make this decision. The decision was made by a pen pusher somewhere in that Dept.
This is the person who should be held responsible for this reckless decision.
No doubt this faceless individual will never face any sanction.

amdaley28 · 01-05-2020 10:49am

Double post.

Rows Grower · 01-05-2020 12:41pm

amdaley28 wrote: »

I sent two e mails to Minister Griffin but only got a reply from one of his "family" member employees. Never heard a word from Minister Griffin.
Its obvious that either Minister Griffin doesn't have any clout or is simply afraid to say something in case he loses his handy number.
The Kerry TD's were caught on the hop with this.
They should be aware of decisions relating to Kerry & it shouldn't be up to the public to force them to get their act together.

Incidentally the Dept of Defence didn't make this decision. The decision was made by a pen pusher somewhere in that Dept.
This is the person who should be held responsible for this reckless decision.
No doubt this faceless individual will never face any sanction.

I always had respect for him from when he came on the scene first and pledged to donate half his salary to help keep a local school open if elected. It was a very noble and generous gesture which no doubt did him no harm on voting day and he kept his word.

He's losing touch with local issues it seems and looks to be more concerned what Leo thinks about him than the people who voted him into office. He strikes me as very ambitious for power and there's nothing at all wrong with that once you don't forget the people who gave you the opportunity to climb.

This is a massive issue for the people of Kerry and he really should be at the forefront of trying to resolve it.

amdaley28 · 01-05-2020 2:11pm

Rows Grower wrote: »

I always had respect for him from when he came on the scene first and pledged to donate half his salary to help keep a local school open if elected. It was a very noble and generous gesture which no doubt did him no harm on voting day and he kept his word.

He's losing touch with local issues it seems and looks to be more concerned what Leo thinks about him than the people who voted him into office. He strikes me as very ambitious for power and there's nothing at all wrong with that once you don't forget the people who gave you the opportunity to climb.

This is a massive issue for the people of Kerry and he really should be at the forefront of trying to resolve it.

Donating part or all of your salary is all very well especially if you don't actually need the money in the first place.
I just want people to do what they are paid for. In this case work for the benefit of your constituents.
its all about perception.

Now for all I know he's working his butt off but we don't know that because he's not talking to the people of his constituency, at least not to this one.

The electorate are fickle.
Forget them & they will forget you at the next election.
Take care of the home place & the home place will take care of you

That's the one thing all the established politicians down through the years learned.
Those that didn't are no longer politicians.

Rows Grower · 02-05-2020 10:27am

The residents themselves want to leave and the place to be closed down it's disgraceful the way this is being handled...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/kerry-asylum-seekers-ask-to-be-moved-after-quarantine-introduced-at-centre-1.4243157

amdaley28 · 02-05-2020 4:17pm

Rows Grower wrote: »

The residents themselves want to leave and the place to be closed down it's disgraceful the way this is being handled...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/kerry-asylum-seekers-ask-to-be-moved-after-quarantine-introduced-at-centre-1.4243157

The whole thing is being run by the Dept of Defence who are answerable to no one.
Its clear that the Kerry TD's including the so called Minister have no sway at all in what happens to the residents of the Skellig Star or the Community in general.

Incident in the local Centra the other day when as a local woman was doing her shopping a female resident from the Skellig Star walked in. Words were exchanged because the local woman thought the asylum seeker should have been self isolating instead of walking around town.
The shop assistant said she could do nothing about it, which of course she couldn't.

The silence from Minister Griffin is deafening which hopefully the electorate will remember at the next opportunity, not that the choice down here is great because the rest are equally useless.
Like tits on a bull :mad:

An Ciarraioch · 02-05-2020 7:20pm

Only one new case for each of the last two days - unless the beaches and walkways are mobbed in the coming days, there's a good chance of eradicating the disease locally by the time non-essential shops reopen on June 29th:

https://twitter.com/kerryman_ie/status/1256637765728579584

Rows Grower · 02-05-2020 7:26pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Only one new case for each of the last two days - unless the beaches and walkways are mobbed in the coming days, there's a good chance of eradicating the disease locally by the time non-essential shops reopen on June 29th:

https://twitter.com/kerryman_ie/status/1256637765728579584

Wow, that is just so positive!

Thanks for posting.

An Ciarraioch · 03-05-2020 5:51pm

And again today, one new case brings the running total to 295, though presumably at least half will have recovered by now.

Ciarrai76 · 03-05-2020 8:03pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

And again today, one new case brings the running total to 295, though presumably at least half will have recovered by now.

Kerry now at 22nd in the ranking, so we are improving thankfully!

Kerrydude1981 · 04-05-2020 10:01am

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

Kerry now at 22nd in the ranking, so we are improving thankfully!

We really seem to have got a grasp on the virus now here in Kerry

Keep it up folks

An Ciarraioch · 04-05-2020 6:12pm

Three new cases today.

Podge201 · 04-05-2020 6:46pm

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Three new cases today.

It would benefit if we knew where in the county also.

Ciarrai76 · 04-05-2020 7:52pm

Podge201 wrote: »

It would benefit if we knew where in the county also.

That information has not been given up to now. We are never given that exact information.

kn · 05-05-2020 3:53pm

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

That information has not been given up to now. We are never given that exact information.

There was a map of cases in the County a while back that had Tralee littered with them but the rest of the County really scattered. But I suppose that is to be expected with 1 in 4 cases related to Health workers.

wonga77 · 05-05-2020 4:27pm

kn wrote: »

There was a map of cases in the County a while back that had Tralee littered with them but the rest of the County really scattered. But I suppose that is to be expected with 1 in 4 cases related to Health workers.

How come that map was released and nothing since?

Rows Grower · 05-05-2020 4:30pm

kn wrote: »

There was a map of cases in the County a while back that had Tralee littered with them but the rest of the County really scattered. But I suppose that is to be expected with 1 in 4 cases related to Health workers.

Yes, there were friends of mine who were able to tell me about the one positive case that was in our immediate locality, I had been told about it and when I asked them how they knew they said they had seen a map online and there was a red dot where the person lived.

I looked online a couple of times but couldn't find the map.

amdaley28 · 05-05-2020 4:30pm

wonga77 wrote: »

How come that map was released and nothing since?

Obviously they feel the less you know the less you will complain :rolleyes:

Rows Grower · 05-05-2020 4:31pm

wonga77 wrote: »

How come that map was released and nothing since?

I'd imagine it's something to do with patient confidentiality but I'm only guessing.

An Ciarraioch · 05-05-2020 6:04pm

Another three cases takes us over the 300 mark:

http://geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a192b58ba6904c1494f651706c223520

Ciarrai76 · 05-05-2020 7:40pm

Rows Grower wrote: »

Yes, there were friends of mine who were able to tell me about the one positive case that was in our immediate locality, I had been told about it and when I asked them how they knew they said they had seen a map online and there was a red dot where the person lived.

I looked online a couple of times but couldn't find the map.

There should be a post with the image of the map on this thread or a link.

Ciarrai76 · 05-05-2020 7:55pm

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

An updated map of Kerry from Radio Kerry:

'New COVID-19 cases in Kerry, Munster and Republic of Ireland, as per the HSE's latest data.
Grey dots are pre-reported cases and red dots are the latest confirmed cases (as per 14 April).'

@Rows Grower this is the map that was posted a couple of weeks ago for Kerry. I haven't seen an updated one since.

Rows Grower · 05-05-2020 8:00pm

Ciarrai76 wrote: »

@Rows Grower this is the map that was posted a couple of weeks ago for Kerry. I haven't seen an updated one since.

Cheers Ciarrai76, I can actually see the dot and it's grey now.

Ciarrai76 · 05-05-2020 9:51pm

Rows Grower wrote: »

Cheers Ciarrai76, I can actually see the dot and it's grey now.

The grey ones were older cases apparently. I'm not sure why a new map hasn't been circulated since then.

Panda Killa · 06-05-2020 1:07pm

7 cases in UHK and 2 suspected as of yesterday

kn · 06-05-2020 1:23pm

Panda Killa wrote: »

7 cases in UHK and 2 suspected as of yesterday

Really small numbers when you consider it in realtion to other hospitals. I think I heard in the last week that Limerick Regional had 40 something cases.

An Ciarraioch · 06-05-2020 1:30pm

Panda Killa wrote: »

7 cases in UHK and 2 suspected as of yesterday

Up somewhat compared to last week:

https://twitter.com/kerryman_ie/status/1256339358765875203

An Ciarraioch · 06-05-2020 6:17pm

Thankfully, three seems to be the recent peak, with only one case recorded today:

http://geohive.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/a192b58ba6904c1494f651706c223520

amdaley28 · 06-05-2020 7:51pm

There was a further case in the Skellig Star Hotel in Caherciveen this week.
It seems the residents are still sharing rooms with strangers.

BPKS · 07-05-2020 8:39am

Irish Times article today makes no mention of how the asylum seekers ended up in Caherviceen just as the country was going into lockdown.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/asylum-seekers-appeal-for-safe-housing-after-covid-19-outbreak-at-co-kerry-centre-1.4246829?mode=amp

Typical of the so called Paper of Record.

newman10 · 07-05-2020 9:10am

amdaley28 wrote: »

There was a further case in the Skellig Star Hotel in Caherciveen this week.
It seems the residents are still sharing rooms with strangers.

Who are the owners

Why has Brendan Griffin been so quite about this ???

wonga77 · 07-05-2020 10:08am

newman10 wrote: »

Who are the owners

Why has Brendan Griffin been so quite about this ???

He was the only one of the td's that didn't oppose it, its strange that he's avoided it

Panda Killa · 07-05-2020 10:12am

Reports in RedFm today that Tony Holohan is not happy with the levels. . that he's unhappy with the infection rates in young people ..and we aren't at the levels to reopen on the 18th

An Ciarraioch · 07-05-2020 12:04pm

Interesting to see the general weekly overview in Kerry's Eye today:

21-28 April: 20 cases
28 April-5th May: 13 cases

So, probably more useful to switch to weekly updates unless there's either a zero case day, or indeed a day where there are 4 or more cases, given 3 seems to have been the height of the last week.

An Ciarraioch · 07-05-2020 1:10pm

And an even broader overview, beginning mid-March:

https://twitter.com/IrishDataViz/status/1258148296901767169

An Ciarraioch · 07-05-2020 6:08pm

So, naturally, today is a zero case day.

Panda Killa · 07-05-2020 7:23pm

When do we expect the numbers from The bank holiday weekend to start showing up?

An Ciarraioch · 07-05-2020 7:26pm

Seems to be a 3-4 day average turnaround time now.

Rows Grower · 08-05-2020 8:24am

It's time now that Brendan the acting Minister of State for tourism got up off his arse and started to answer questions and acknowledge he has a job to do with regard to this debacle..

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/problems-mount-at-caherciveen-direct-provision-centre-998331.html

Seamai · 08-05-2020 9:02am

This might be slightly off topic and may not be relevant to Caherciveen but over the last few weeks I've heard several references of people in direct provision centres working in care homes (and elsewhere). I was under the impression that one of the biggest issues with the direct provision system was that anyone in it was not allowed to work and was totally reliant on the €20 or so "spending money" they get a week.
So what is the situation with work? If a person is earning a reasonable wage are they supposed to stay in the system until their request to stay in Ireland is processed?

Panda Killa · 08-05-2020 11:05am

An Ciarraioch wrote: »

Seems to be a 3-4 day average turnaround time now.

So it's going to be next weekend before we see any results from the bank holiday weekend...
Walked thru town yesterday, and I'm sorry...the absolute stupidity from cafes and people is just mind boggling.
1 cafe had a table with 2 chairs outside..and 5 people and a baby all around the table....

Rows Grower · 08-05-2020 11:18am

Large street protests in Caherciveen this morning, understandably there's an awful lot of anger there.

Residents hanging out the upper windows with signs in support of the marchers, one resident with a sign saying 26+ positive cases, please move us out.

Covid-19 Kerry

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