Good news; food won’t run out! pic.twitter.com/GmPD4Hr8cT
— Juliette Gash (@JulietteGash) March 2, 2018
Ah here.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar speaking at the latest press conference of National Emergency Coordination Group.
The whole thing is a fucNOMNOMNOM
Last night: Snowverkill?
Meanwhile…
Finally.
Gavin Birney writes:
A fun little game (that I have nothing to do with). Hopefully developer sees it and receives kudos. I give you “Beast From The East: The Game!”
Play here.
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…you couldn’t make it up…well…Oliver Callen might…
Some Leotard alright.
Apparently, food was running out in some 5*Hotels in Dublin yesterday.
Not for guests. Just for staff.
Utterly shameful behaviour.
Pure famine era attitudes right there, I’d well believe you. Welcome to Leo-liberal Ireland. :-/
some of ye are almost too willing to believe things
Says the man entrenched in Leo’s official fake news SCU
“I want to believe”
you complain about govt propaganda but lap up any story that fits your outlook.
I have 2 daughters working in 5* hotels in Dublin.
Just for comparison and in the interests of fairness I will outline the difference in treatment by both employers.
(A) Was rostered to begin her shift on Wednesday at 6 am even though she advised her supervisor that she would not be able to be in at that time due to no public services operating between here and the city centre that early. She was on site before 7 am, others did not show up, she received her first ever verbal warning.
(B) Was rostered to begin at 7 am on Wednesday. Her GM offered to get her and other staff a taxi to work as conditions were expected to worsen and roads might not be safe for the trip home. She was offered the choice of a room at the hotel or a taxi home, then a taxi back to work the following morning and so on. Hot food and fresh bread was provided at all breaks.
(A) …was offered a room over night at the hotel but no taxi as they were so under staffed and were reluctant to let staff go home for fear of them not being able to get back on Thursday morning. There was no hot food provided on Wednesday night for the staff who volunteered to stay on site. There was no breakfast provided either on Thursday and when she asked the chef for some bread/toast she was told to *uck off as they only had enough bread for guests (are chefs not able to make bread these days?). No hot food provided for staff in the canteen on Thursday lunch break either. Staff who volunteered to stay on Thursday night were allowed to order from the bar menu. She’s still at work in the hotel today and will be there tomorrow morning and Monday morning whatever the conditions.
They have a staff shortage this week and rely on agency staff normally to take up the slack.
(B) has been picked up and dropped home by taxi since Wednesday night. Hot food and fresh baked bread provided every day. All the staff at her hotel have pulled out all the stops so a young couple can have their wedding there today. I wish them well and hope they have a memorable day and happy future together. They probably don’t know how much effort was put into getting the event ready by all those involved.
Interesting. Name hotel B, Italia. They deserve some kudos.
That would be Bodger’s call. The begrudgers on here would accuse them of advertising, you know how it is…
Bit like the fate of rapid broadband
Meanwhile as brexit looms ?
david, when the adults are speaking, you must keep quiet, ok?
Papi, your crayons are over in the far corner ok..
Which I’d say is where you are
Well that game will keep me happy for the rest of the day!
It’s like something from a low budget disaster movie.
If the snow affected the west of Ireland, say a line from Cork to Donegal, there would be no
Hogan, Murphy or Varadkr or much of a mention on RTE, because it hit the East and Dublin
first, that’s why there is the panic and hype.
The reality is that this Country has no strategic plan to deal with food supplies even the basics
if there was a prolonged shutdown due to a blizzard, nor is there a localised source of supply
in particular of bread, milk and meat, it has all been centralised, when the blizzard took hold in
1947, there was an extensive rail network which was an effective piece of infrastructure.
In nearly all town’s there were a couple of bakeries and most households had a flour supply same
went for local milk supplies and meat, the mandrins in the Dept of Agriculure, HSE and FSA have
got rid of the local source of supply, all they did was copy EU Regulations and Directives,
Yet they same outfits have no plan if there is weather inflicted shutdown
The last few days has been a wake up call, and the spin emanating from RTE wont cover it
up:.
Dunnes was carnage today. I have never seen anything like it.